Rebecca K. Taylor, s/k/a Rebecca Knight Taylor v. Commonwealth of Virginia

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Commonwealth could not charge a criminal defendant with a felony “after the limitations period on a lesser-included misdemeanor had run” (emphasis added)
• noting that whether a claim is barred by the statute of limitations is a question of law
• “[O]ne cannot be convicted of a lesser offense upon a prosecution for a greater crime, which includes the lesser offense, commenced after the statute of limitations has run on the lesser offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).