Legal Opinion
State v. Petrucelli
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided March 22, 1991No. 88-479PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.
The sole issue in this interlocutory appeal is whether 1 V.S.A. § 214(b)(2) prohibits retroactive application of an amendment to 13 V.S.A. § 4501(c), which lengthened the statute of limitations for sexual assault from three years to six years. We hold that it does not and remand for trial.
On March 27, 1987, the State filed an information charging defendant with two counts of sexual assault of a minor. The alleged offenses occurred in 1983, four years before the information was filed. In 1983, the statute of limitations for sexual assault, then found in 13 V.S.A. § 4501, was three years. In…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Falter v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1928
- State v. HodgsonWashington Supreme Court · 1987
- Lillicrap v. MartinSupreme Court of Vermont · 1991
- Commonwealth v. DuffySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1881
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1989
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3Cited by16 opinions
- State v. SkakelSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2006
- People v. RussoMichigan Supreme Court · 1992
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- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1992
- In Re JonesSupreme Court of Vermont · 2009
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