State v. Ault

How courts have described this case

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• determining whether an offense is a “serious offense” is a question for the judge
• “when the legislature expresses a list, we assume the exclusion of items not listed”
• “[W]hen the legislature expresses a list, we assume the exclusion of items not listed.”
• when legislature expresses list, generally we assume exclusion of items not listed
• “Because the legislature obviously knew how to require a jury finding when that was its intention and did not make such a provision here, we conclude that the legislature did not intend for seriousness to require a separate finding by the trier of fact.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).