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PEOPLE v. LOPEZ

Docket No. C020037.

52 Cal.App.4th 233 (1997)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. FRANCISCO OLMOS LOPEZ, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

January 24, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Robert E. Venturi and Harry Joseph Colombo, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Mark E. Cutler and Melissa K. Nappan, under appointments by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

SPARKS, J.

Except as provided in Penal Code sections 799 and 800, a prosecution for an offense punishable by imprisonment in the state prison must "be commenced within three years after commission of the offense."1 (Pen. Code, § 801.) This general statute of limitations is subject, however, to a discovery provision for specified crimes. Thus, for offenses involving described misconduct in...

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