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To: Cats Pajamas

Okay, this means the clock is running out. Some of this corruption has to be subject to the Statute of Limitations.

Treason may be unlimited. I’ve been schooled before about my concerns for the clock running that’s been going on for years, so there are crimes that are *not* subject to Limitations.


2,427 posted on 05/15/2018 11:02:20 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Ed/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming, infini)
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To: RitaOK
Okay, this means the clock is running out. Some of this corruption has to be subject to the Statute of Limitations.

The Clintons were famous for this. Like the late discovery of the Rose Law Firm billing records....Oh, looky here, oh, too late, sorry....

2,429 posted on 05/15/2018 11:05:11 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: RitaOK

If the conduct is a pattern that can be prosecuted under RICO:

At Least One Racketeering Act Must Have Been Committed On Or After October 15, 1970 and the Last Racketeering Act Must Have Been Committed Within Ten Years of a Prior Act

CRIMINAL RICO:
18 U.S.C. §§1961-1968
A Manual For Federal Prosecutors
SIXTH REVISED EDITION May 2016

This ten-year requirement has occasionally led to the mistaken view that RICO has a ten-year limitations period. See Section VI(Q) below.

In fact, this requirement means only that the last racketeering act must have occurred within ten years after commission of a prior racketeering act that is essential to establish the requisite two acts.

For example, if only two racketeering acts constitute the pattern and the first act occurred in 1995, the last act must have occurred within ten years after 1995.

If more than two acts constitute the pattern, it is permissible to have a time span longer than ten years between the first and last racketeering acts as long as the last racketeering act is within ten years of the prior racketeering act.

https://www.justice.gov/usam/file/870856/download

There’s LOTS of time. Don’t worry.


2,463 posted on 05/15/2018 11:37:36 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT!)
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To: RitaOK

Treason, murder, fraud... and a couple of other ones have no statute of limitations.


2,467 posted on 05/15/2018 11:40:26 AM PDT by ichabod1 (If there is to be war, let it begin here.)
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To: RitaOK

federal conspiracy statutes begin to run from the last overt act of the conspiracy...

https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-652-statute-limitations-conspiracy

652. Statute of Limitations for Conspiracy
Conspiracy is a continuing offense. For statutes such as 18 U.S.C. § 371, which require an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy, the statute of limitations begins to run on the date of the last overt act. See Fiswick v. United States, 329 U.S. 211 (1946); United States v. Butler, 792 F.2d 1528 (11th Cir. 1986). For conspiracy statutes which do not require proof of an overt act, such as RICO (18 U.S.C. § 1961) or 21 U.S.C. § 846, the government must allege and prove that the conspiracy continued into the limitations period. The crucial question in this regard is the scope of the conspiratorial agreement, and the conspiracy is deemed to continue until its purpose has been achieved or abandoned. See United States v. Northern Imp. Co., 814 F.2d 540 (8th Cir. 1987); United States v. Coia, 719 F.2d 1120 (11th Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 466 U.S. 973 (1984).

An individual’s “withdrawal” from a conspiracy starts the statute of limitations running as to that individual. “Withdrawal” from a conspiracy for this purpose means that the conspirator must take affirmative action by making a clean breast to the authorities or communicating his or her disassociation to the other conspirators. See United States v. Gonzalez, 797 F.2d 915 (10th Cir. 1986).


2,503 posted on 05/15/2018 12:03:53 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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