Here’s a question for all the legal eagles out there - but is Ben Carson actually liable for prosecution on the basis of his admitted crime of trying to stab his friend in 9th grade?
This incident would have happened in 1965 or so, when Carson was in 9th grade.
Carson graduated HS in 1969 and went to Yale. So he lived in Michigan for four years after the incident.
He then graduated from Yale in 1973 and attended medical school in Ann Arbor, finishing there in 1977. So that’s another four years of being a Michigan resident.
He then went to Johns Hopkins to finish his residency and then stayed on there for the rest of his medical career.
The Michigan Criminal Code for statute of limitations gives a limitation of ten years for charges to be brought for the crime of “assault with the intention or conspiracy to murder.” However, this ten year period apply to time of residency in the state of Michigan, in which the individual was “substantially residing” in the state. Carson only had eight years of post attempted murder residency.
So is he still liable for prosecution if he sets foot in Michigan, or liable for extradition?
Not saying this should or will happen...but it does raise an uncomfortable question.
Charges where never filed.
No police report was ever made.
No statute of limitations exists as no one ever brought the incident to authorities and it would not be able to be brought now.