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PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

No. S069793.

87 Cal.Rptr.2d 412 (1999)

981 P.2d 42

21 Cal.4th 335

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. James Thomas WILLIAMS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

August 12, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward H. Schulman, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Assistant Attorney General, Steven D. Matthews, Anh T. Nguyen, John R. Gorey, Kyle S. Brodie and Christina Russotto, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Kent S. Scheidegger and Denise A. Yates for Criminal Justice Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

CHIN, J.

For over 60 years, this court described the statute of limitations as limiting the court's subject matter jurisdiction and said that trial courts could not proceed in a time-barred case. (E.g., People v. McGee (1934) 1 Cal.2d 611, 36 P.2d 378 (McGee); People v. Chadd (1981) 28 Cal.3d 739, 756-757, 170 Cal.Rptr. 798, 621 P.2d 837<...

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