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DNA - AMENDMENT REGARDING WARRANTS

                 
2003 GENERAL SESSION

                 
STATE OF UTAH

                 
Sponsor: Lyle W. Hillyard

                  This act modifies the Criminal Code, removing the statute of limitations on certain
                  violent crimes when DNA evidence has been collected that can be used to identify the
                  perpetrator.
                  This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
                  AMENDS:
                      76-1-302, as last amended by Chapter 5, Laws of Utah 1990
                  Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
                      Section 1. Section 76-1-302 is amended to read:
                       76-1-302. Time limitations for prosecution of offenses -- Provisions if DNA
                  evidence would identify the defendant -- Commencement of prosecution.
                      (1) Except as otherwise provided, a prosecution for:
                      (a) a felony or negligent homicide shall be commenced within four years after it is
                  committed;
                      (b) a misdemeanor other than negligent homicide shall be commenced within two years
                  after it is committed; and
                      (c) any infraction shall be commenced within one year after it is committed.
                      (2) (a) A prosecution for the offenses listed in Subsections 76-3-203.5(1)(c)(i)(A)
                  through (P) may be commenced at any time if the identity of the person who committed the
                  crime is unknown but DNA evidence is collected that would identify the person at a later date.
                      (b) Subsection (2)(a) does not apply if the statute of limitations on a crime has run as of
                  May 5, 2003, and no charges have been filed.
                      (3) If the statute of limitations would have run but for the provisions of Subsection (2)
                  and identification of a perpetrator is made through DNA, a prosecution shall be commenced
                  within one year of the discovery of the identity of the perpetrator.
                      [(2)] (4) A prosecution is commenced upon the finding and filing of an indictment by a


                  grand jury or upon the filing of a complaint or information.

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