Walk It Through: The Old Charge
Three years for a felony, one for a misdemeanor, six months for an infraction, and absence capped.
An infraction is charged more than six months after the offense.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
Three charges. The offenses that may be charged at any time, the listed arson periods, and the time after a DNA profile is developed are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- InfractionAn offense carrying a fine of up to four hundred dollars.
- StalkingPurposely following or disturbing someone through a course of conduct with no legitimate purpose, with a threat or while violating an order of protection. In the first degree, a class E felony.
- TollingA pause in a limitation period. The criminal period does not run while the accused is absent from the state, or while the accused is concealed from justice anywhere.