California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rocha, 243 Cal.Rptr.3d 747, 32 Cal.App.5th 352 (Cal. App. 2019):
We need not determine which party has the better constitutional argument. "Our jurisprudence directs that we avoid resolving constitutional questions if the issue may be resolved on narrower grounds." ( Loeffler v. Target Corp. (2014) 58 Cal.4th 1081, 1102, 171 Cal.Rptr.3d 189, 324 P.3d 50.) Here, the issues may be resolved on narrower statutory grounds, as evidenced in Rodriguez , supra , 17 Cal.4th 253, 70 Cal.Rptr.2d 334, 949 P.2d 31.
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