United States v. Wiggins

The resolution of the specified issue involves no more than application of accepted rules of statutory construction to the language of Article 113. This Court has made clear that:

When a statutory provision is unambiguous, further judicial interpretation is unnecessary except in rare and exceptional circumstances. An appellate court is bound to assume that the legislative purpose of a statute is accurately expressed in the language of the statute. Unless an appellate court can discover a clearly expressed legislative intent to the contrary, the language of the statute is ordinarily regarded as…