Statute of Limitations in VA

[N.I.]

Sorry if this has been covered, but I did some searching on this site and could not find what I was looking for.

There is no statute of limitations on felony crimes in Virginia. A felony crime is any crime carrying a penalty of a year or more in jail. This is a verified fact. Call your Commonwealth DA if you don't believe me. In fact, please don't believe me, please verify by calling a DA -- not sure if you are supposed to call the DA where you lived at the time, or just the Fairfax County DA. Please verify and correct mistakes.

Again, I have done a little searching, but before I spend all day on the internet researching this tomorrow, could anyone provide information on whether felony charges have ever been considered, filed, attempted to be filed, brought to trial, or convicted, against any Straight staff or board members.

Again, sorry if this is old news, but I will provide some links shortly to Virginia criminal code.

I am not a lawyer, I am a former Straight prisoner. Don't believe anything I say without checking it out yourself.

[N.I.]

http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504 ... TOC1802000

[N.I.]

http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504 ... od+18.2-47

§ 18.2-47. Abduction and kidnapping defined; punishment.



A. Any person, who, by force, intimidation or deception, and without legal justification or excuse, seizes, takes, transports, detains or secretes the person of another, with the intent to deprive such other person of his personal liberty or to withhold or conceal him from any person, authority or institution lawfully entitled to his charge, shall be deemed guilty of "abduction"; but the provisions of this section shall not apply to any law-enforcement officer in the performance of his duty. The terms "abduction" and "kidnapping" shall be synonymous in this Code. Abduction for which no punishment is otherwise prescribed shall be punished as a Class 5 felony.

B. If such offense is committed by the parent of the person abducted and punishable as contempt of court in any proceeding then pending, the offense shall be a Class 1 misdemeanor in addition to being punishable as contempt of court. However, such offense, if committed by the parent of the person abducted and punishable as contempt of court in any proceeding then pending and the person abducted is removed from the Commonwealth by the abducting parent, shall be a Class 6 felony in addition to being punishable as contempt of court[ This Message was edited by: N.I. on 2004-12-20 17:56 ]

[N.I.]

http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504 ... od+18.2-48

§ 18.2-48. Abduction with intent to extort money or for immoral purpose.

Abduction (i) with the intent to extort money or pecuniary benefit, (ii) of any person with intent to defile such person, or (iii) of any child under sixteen years of age for the purpose of concubinage or prostitution, shall be a Class 2 felony[ This Message was edited by: N.I. on 2004-12-20 17:57 ]

[N.I.]

http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504 ... od+18.2-49

§ 18.2-49. Threatening, attempting or assisting in such abduction.

Any person who (1) threatens, or attempts, to abduct any other person with intent to extort money, or pecuniary benefit, or (2) assists or aids in the abduction of, or threatens to abduct, any person with the intent to defile such person, or (3) assists or aids in the abduction of, or threatens to abduct, any female under sixteen years of age for the purpose of concubinage or prostitution, shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony. [ This Message was edited by: N.I. on 2004-12-20 17:58 ]

[N.I.]

http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504 ... od+18.2-59


§ 18.2-59. Extorting money, etc., by threats.

If any person threaten injury to the character, person, or property of another person or accuse him of any offense and thereby extort money, property, or pecuniary benefit or any note, bond, or other evidence of debt from him or any other person, he shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-184; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)

[N.I.]

from the following link, in the first paragraph:
http://www.thestraights.com/articles/perjury.htm

"He finally closed Straight in          1993 but there were no convictions."

[Animals]

Question for you, sleuth:

If there are no statutes in VA, are you going to get you a lawyer and file suit or something civil against Straight or its Insurance Companies?

[N.I.]

Good question. I believe that the statute of limitations is up for civil matters, but I have not verified this with a lawyer.

If criminal charges are still possible then I would like to get a lawyer.

As for whom to sue, who perpetrated the crimes?