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What Crimes In California Have No Statute Of Limitations
What Crimes In California Have No Statute Of Limitations | Role of DNA Evidence Criminal Law
March 15, 2026

What Crimes In California Have No Statute Of Limitations | Role of DNA Evidence

California law allows murder, capital offenses, and crimes carrying life in prison or the death penalty to be prosecuted at any time in the future. There's no statute of limitations on child molestation, forcible rape, and other violent sex offenses. Special circumstances as defined by California law can change the seriousness of many crimes. DNA evidence can extend prosecution timelines.…