State v. Kay
Annotate this CaseIn two separate cases, the State charged Defendant with multiple counts of communications fraud and one count of a pattern of unlawful activity. The district court (1) dismissed the first case on statute-of-limitations grounds after concluding that communications fraud is not a continuing offense; and (2) dismissed the second case as an improper attempt to prosecute Defendant for the same substantive offense as in the previous case. The State appealed both cases. The Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of both cases, holding (1) in the first case, the statute of limitations had run for the charged crimes; and (2) in the second case, the State failed to separately challenge the district court’s dismissal, and therefore, the dismissal of the second case is also affirmed.
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