State v. Cleve

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that when “offenses are defined by statutes providing several alternatives,” courts “focus on the legal theory of the case and disregard any inapplicable statutory elements” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• noting that when “offenses are defined by statutes 9 providing several alternatives,” courts “focus on the legal theory of the case and 10 disregard any inapplicable statutory elements” (internal quotation marks and citation 11 omitted)
• commenting that the general/specific “rule in effect treats the special law as an exception to the general law because . . . the Legislature’s attention is more particularly directed to the relevant subject matter in deliberating upon the special law”
• commenting that the general/specific “rule in effect treats the special law as an exception to the general law because . . . the Legislature’s attention is more particularly directed to the relevant subject matter in deliberating upon the special law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).