HOUSE BILL No. 6070


     October 4, 2000, Introduced by Reps. DeHart, Scranton, Schermesser and Schauer and referred to the Committee on Criminal
Law and Corrections.


        A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled

   "The code of criminal procedure,"

   by amending section 24 of chapter VII (MCL 767.24), as amended by

   1987 PA 255.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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                                 CHAPTER VII

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           Sec. 24.  (1) An indictment for the crime of murder may be

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      found at any  period  TIME after the death of the person alleged

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      to have been murdered.  Indictments  AN INDICTMENT for the

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       crimes  CRIME of kidnapping, extortion, assault with intent to

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      commit murder,  and  OR conspiracy to commit murder shall be

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      found and filed within 10 years after the commission of the

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      offense.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2),  all

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      other indictments  AN INDICTMENT FOR ANY OTHER CRIME shall be

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      found and filed within 6 years after the commission of the


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      offense.  However, any period during which the party charged did

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      not usually and publicly reside within this state  shall  IS not

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       be considered  part of the time within which the  respective

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      indictments shall  INDICTMENT IS REQUIRED TO be found and filed.

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           (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), if an alleged victim was

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       under  LESS THAN 18 years of age at the time  of the commission

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      of  the offense WAS COMMITTED, an indictment for an offense under

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      section 145c or 520b to 520g of the Michigan penal code,  Act

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      No. 328 of the Public Acts of 1931, being sections 750.145c and

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      750.520b to 750.520g of the Michigan Compiled Laws  1931 PA 328,

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      MCL 750.145C AND 750.520B TO 750.520G, may be found and filed

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      within  6  20 years after the commission of the offense or by the

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      alleged victim's twenty-first birthday, whichever is later.

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           Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act applies to offenses

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      committed on or after June 1, 1980.



























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