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Very broadly speaking if you're hiding and law enforcement is actively looking for you the statute of limitations pauses, because the delay is morally your faul
by iudqnolq 4y ago
Very broadly speaking if you're hiding and law enforcement is actively looking for you the statute of limitations pauses, because the delay is morally your fault. (And actively looking has a generous definition) That could be what happened here.
- drsnow 4y agoHow are you/authorities defining hiding? Is it hiding if he wasn't trying to evade anything and LE were just too slow in identifying him?
- pas 4y ago18 USC 3290 ("No statute of limitations shall extend to any person fleeing from justice") but it not clear, see this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35548508 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35548508 that's where case law comes in, probably there's some test for it made up by a few judges (like was there an active warrant, or named as person of interest in an active case, etc..)