People v. Price

Opinion

ALDRICH, J.

INTRODUCTION

What limitations period applies to the crimes of grand theft, forgery, and burglary? Does a three-year limitations period apply to those crimes, as defendant and appellant Marie Elaine Price contends? Or does a four-year limitations period apply to them, as the People contend? We hold that grand theft and forgery are subject to the four-year limitations period in Penal Code sections 801.5 and 803, subdivision (c). We also hold that, regardless of which limitations period applies to burglary, the prosecution of Price for that crime was timely under the facts of…