“At anyrate, following your line of thought, if I can avoid capture for some arbitrary number of years I should not have to pay for my acts.”
That’s not my thought. It’s a legal principle called a ‘statute of limitations’ and in US law the principle is inherent in the Sixth Amendment which was apparently put together by a bunch of bleeding heart liberals from Columbia University.
You don’t understand the Statute of Limitations, and are wrong again. Fleeing the jurisdiction stops the clock. The sixth amendment wasn’t written by liberals, but has obviously been misinterpreted by one, namely you.