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5 By prohibiting multiple punishments for a single criminal act Penal Code section 654. affords protection beyond and different from that given by either the constitutional proscrip-. tion of subsequent jeopardy or the implementation of that doctrine by Penal Code section 1023..
They can charge someone for a crime anytime during the statute of limitations for the crime. Some states do not have these. The common statute of limitations in states that do is the maximum sentence a person can receive for the crime. davidmi711 Â· 8 years ago.ormally the Statue of Limitations for a Crime is based on the maximum penalty for that crime. So if you could go to jail for 2 years for committing it then they normally would have 2 years to charge you with the crime. There is no Statue of Limitations for Capital Offenses though. vamarine22 Â· 8 years ago.