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State v. Couch

Citations

  • 147 P.3d 322
  • 341 Or. 610

How courts have described this case

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

  • “Defendant notes that the trial court based its decision on [facts not alleged in the information]. That is true. It also was error.”
  • “Defendant notes that the trial court based its decision on [facts not alleged in the information]. That is true. It also was error.”
  • “the term ‘wildlife’ means whatever the legislature says that it means,” regardless of what it meant at common law
  • a term in a statute means “whatever the legislature says that it means”
  • trial court’s ruling on demurrer to charging instrument reviewed for errors of law
  • when the legislature has expressly defined a term in a statute, we are “obliged to apply the legislature’s definition,” and we employ our standard methods of statutory interpretation to examine that definition

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Judges: De Muniz, Chief Justice, and Carson, Gillette, Durham, Balmer and Kistler, Justices

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