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Originally Posted by raulus
I'm wading into the danger zone as an accountant attempting to speak to legal issues, but I think the idea is that the SOL eliminates the possibility of being charged with the crime, and the potential of jail time. Obviously it's a long ways from being home free and the ability to just act with impunity, but at least that one source of potential jeopardy is lifted once the SOL has run.
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My thought has been that SOLs are legislatively created and, therefore, risk being legislatively changed. So it would be hard to be supremely comfortable doing anything untoward if you’re relying on a SOL as your only defense. That’s a little different than if you’re been tried and acquitted and then do something untoward because at that point you’d be relying on a constitutional defense of double jeopardy, not just a legislative invention of a SOL.