Expiring Statute Of Limitations Saves Alleged Scammers From Prosecution; Accused Of Recording "Obviously Phony" Forged Lien Satisfaction

In Stanislaus County, California, The Modesto Bee reports:

• A judge Friday threw out six felony charges in the 1993 sale of a Modesto home, saying fraud allegations against a doctor, a real estate broker and a notary public are too old to take to trial.

• As he handed down his ruling, Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Donald Shaver noted that a document filed with the clerk-recorder's office in 1999, to extinguish a $22,400 loan, is obviously phony, because it purportedly is signed by Jewel Young, who died in 1995.

• The judge also said the document alone could not support a host of charges filed by the district attorney's office, because Young's nephew, Steven Harris of Atwater, did not bring claims of wrongdoing to the authorities until long after the statute of limitations lapsed.

For more, see Judge dismisses charges of fraud (Says document wiping out home loan fake, but statute of limitations ran out).

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