State v. Gonzalez-Valenzuela

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a defendant’s closing argument in a bench trial that challenges the sufficiency of the evidence is the equivalent of an MJOA
• observing that the legislature has used the simple present tense throughout Oregon’s criminal code to signify “timeless legal facts”
• noting that dictionary definitions may provide a useful starting point for our tex- tual analysis
• explaining that “a stat- ute’s plain meaning is frequently more than the sum of its individually defined terms”
• explaining that a term’s use in a particular context “may dictate applying one definition rather than another, if the dictionary contains multiple defi- nitions for a relevant term”
• discussing, in context of child endangerment statute, \the harm a minor experiences from being in a particular place associated with drug activity\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).