This chapter shall be liberally construed to preserve and protect the rights to which victims are entitled.
A.R.S. § 13-4418
Construction of chapter
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Lynn v. Reinstein (2003)
Most recently applied in Beth Fay v. Hon. fox/state/jordan Hanson (September 2021)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Arizona State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Arizona statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.