Crime Time
Okay folks with keen legal minds, here are a couple of questions for you, all predicated on me having a time machine. Ignore any grandfather-type paradoxes.
1) Suppose I travel back to 1960, rob a bank, and then return to the present. Since said robbery was long enough ago that the statute of limitations has expired, could I be prosecuted for it?
2) Suppose now that instead of doing the above robbery alone, I teamed up with someone, say the inventor of the time machine, to go back in time and rob the bank. If we could not be prosecuted due to the expired of statute of limitations, could we be charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, which we would have done just a couple of days ago.
3) Suppese now that I travel 100 years into the future, steal something, say Grant Woods's American Gothic, and I get caught with it after I return. Can I be charged now with a crime that hasn't happened yet?
1) Suppose I travel back to 1960, rob a bank, and then return to the present. Since said robbery was long enough ago that the statute of limitations has expired, could I be prosecuted for it?
2) Suppose now that instead of doing the above robbery alone, I teamed up with someone, say the inventor of the time machine, to go back in time and rob the bank. If we could not be prosecuted due to the expired of statute of limitations, could we be charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, which we would have done just a couple of days ago.
3) Suppese now that I travel 100 years into the future, steal something, say Grant Woods's American Gothic, and I get caught with it after I return. Can I be charged now with a crime that hasn't happened yet?
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