When does the criminal limitation period pause, and from which event does it start running again?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file we read the court's receipt stamp on the public charge to date its filing, the judgment that dismissed the charge or found a lack of jurisdiction, and the record showing when that judgment became final, such as proof of service with no appeal filed.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the two events in order: the limitation period stops progressing the moment the public charge is filed, and it begins running again only from the time a judgment of dismissal of the charge or of lack of jurisdiction has become final.
Another reading notes that the provision names only dismissal and lack of jurisdiction as the events restarting the period, so where a case ends in a judgment that is neither, the text given here does not say from when the period runs again.
Your judgment
What in the practice file fixes the date on which the judgment dismissing the charge became final, since the provision runs the period from that date but does not say how to show it?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to name a further event that resumes the period or to describe how finality is shown, or if a court decision states when the period runs again after a judgment outside the two cases it names.