RC.152 Legal Interpretive Methodologies
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The majority interprets custody by examining early prison regulations, nineteenth-century dictionaries, and debates surrounding the statute's enactment. A dissent responds that a controlling supreme-court case already defined custody for the same statute as restraint severe enough to limit ordinary freedom of movement. The dissent says the present electronic-monitoring conditions satisfy that test and that none of the factual differences identified by the majority concerns the elements on which the earlier holding turned.