556.037. Time limitations for prosecutions for sexual offenses involving a person under eighteen. — 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 556.036, prosecutions for unlawful sexual offenses involving a person eighteen years of age or under may be commenced at any time.
2. For purposes of this section, "sexual offenses" include, but are not limited to, all offenses for which registration is required under sections 589.400 to 589.425.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
19
cases (
1 in the last 5 years), 1991–2021 · leading case:
State v. Hyman, 37 S.W.3d 384 (Mo. Ct. App. 2001).
State v. Hyman, 37 S.W.3d 384 (Mo. Ct. App. 2001).
· cites it 13× “Section 556.037, RSMo Supp.1999, 7 provides: Section 556.”
Rickey E. Ferdinand v. State of Missouri, 480 S.W.3d 330 (Mo. Ct. App. 2016).
· cites it 29× “Under Section 556.037, RSMo Supp. 1990, prosecutions for unlawful sexual offenses involving a person age seventeen or younger were limited to within ten years after the commission of the offense.”
Longhibler v. State, 832 S.W.2d 908 (Mo. 1992).
· cites it 11× “The motion court rejected this argument, holding that the ten-year statute of limitations set forth in section 556.037, RSMo Supp.1991, governed all of the offenses and, therefore, the charges were not time barred.”
Branson v. State, 145 S.W.3d 57 (Mo. Ct. App. 2004).
· cites it 28× “Section 556.037, RSMo Cum.Supp.1992 uses the words “seventeen years of age or under.”
State ex rel. Greufe v. Davis, 407 S.W.3d 710 (Mo. Ct. App. 2013).
· cites it 28× “Respondent argues that the longer, more specific statute of limitations, found in section 556.037, governs. Because Greufe was charged three years and two months after the possession was discovered and because section 556.”
State v. Naasz, 142 S.W.3d 869 (Mo. Ct. App. 2004).
· cites it 10× “10 Additionally, he states that Section 556.037 is not applicable to extend the statute of limitations for incest to ten years because “it is not included in Chapter 566, which defines all sexual offenses,” and incest is considered to be a crime against the family under Chapter…”
State v. Casaretto, 818 S.W.2d 313 (Mo. Ct. App. 1991).
· cites it 5× “The State claimed, however, that Missouri’s new ten-year statute of limitations for sex offenses, RSMo § 556.037 (Supp.1989) (enacted 1987), allowed the prosecution.”
State v. Rains, 49 S.W.3d 828 (Mo. Ct. App. 2001).
· cites it 12× “*830 In its sole point, State argues the trial court erred in sustaining Defendant’s motion to dismiss because the underlying harm to the victim was sexual abuse by the step-father, triggering the ten year statute of limitations set forth in Section 556.037. State urges Section…”
State v. Cannafax, 344 S.W.3d 279 (Mo. Ct. App. 2011).
· cites it 2× “§ 556.037, RSMo Cum.Supp.2004. At the time of trial, K.”
State of Missouri v. Larry Wright, 484 S.W.3d 817 (Mo. Ct. App. 2015).
· cites it 5× “The State responded that the statute, of limitations under § 556.037 RSMo (Supp. 2007) applies to the crime of possession of child pornography.”
Maurice P. Webber v. State of Missouri (Mo. Ct. App. 2021).
· cites it 140× “2 Specifically, the Amended Motion contended that section 556.037, RSMo Supp. 1997, was the statute of limitations applicable to each of Webber's offenses, that this statute of limitations had expired by the time Webber was indicted, and that the outcome of Webber's case would…”
Hill v. Kendrick, 192 S.W.3d 719 (Mo. Ct. App. 2006).
· cites it 3× “Additionally, as asserted by Relator, the statute of limitations as set forth in Section 556.037, RSMo 2000 and 556.036, RSMo 2000 have not expired as to Relator for the various offenses she asserted to the trial court.”
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