State v. Kenoly

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the term “prevent” “implies that a person does some act to stop an occurrence from happening” and the term “obstruct” “implies making someone’s action more difficult, as opposed to stopping the action completely”
• concluding that the term “prevent” “implies that a person does some act to stop an occurrence from happening” and the term “obstruct” “implies making someone’s action more difficult, as opposed to stopping the action completely”
• concluding that ORS 162.325’s text requires proof that the defendant’s actions stopped or interfered with officers performing some act that might aid in apprehend- ing a suspected felon, regardless of whether the act would lead directly to the suspect’s apprehension
• concluding that ORS 162.325’s text requires proof that the defendant’s actions stopped or interfered with officers performing some act that might aid in apprehend- ing a suspected felon, regardless of whether the act would lead directly to the suspect’s apprehension
• discussing the significance of legislature’s use of both “obstruct” and “prevent” in ORS 162.325
• examining the definition of the term “obstruct” in another part of the 1971 Revised Criminal Code to deter- mine the legislature’s intent for the definition of “obstruct” in the context of ORS 162.325(1)(d)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).