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Generally there's no statute of limitations on murder.
by cryptonector 4y ago
Generally there's no statute of limitations on murder.
- voisin 4y agoThis isn’t murder though. It would be perjury or something along those lines.
- Dracophoenix 4y agoAccording to the article, the warrant says kidnapping, a crime for which there is no statute of limitations. However, the district attorney for the case would have to show probable cause to enforce the arrest warrant. There's little chance of establishing that absent rediscovery of evidence or the existence of new witnesses from a crime that occurred nearly 70 years ago. There's also the issue of their being only one living witness relevant to the ordeal. And she is unlikely to say anything even if she were to possess a steel trap of a memory.
- cryptonector 4y agoEmmett Till was murdered.
- voisin 4y agoYes I understand, but the perpetrators were acquitted. So how could the woman be found guilty?