body: If I commit a crime and many years later (> 25 years) send an email to the police claiming to have committed a crime, can they arrest me?
  
  
  (assumming they do not think it is just a "prank email")
  
  
  Severity of crime:  
  
  Level 3 or 4 as defined by <https://pap.georgia.gov/sites/pap.georgia.gov/files/CSL-s_Post_1-1-2006_considerations.pdf>
  
  
  
  
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  Some time ago, I took a criminology course and was told by the instructor that around 1000 people were known to have raped and/or killed Aboriginals in early/mid 1900 but were not sentenced since it "happened too long ago" (although there is evidence that the crimes have been committed)
  
  
  
title: Expired Punishment