Hawaii Criminal Statute of Limitations
How long Hawaii prosecutors have to file charges, by category. This covers 4 of the 4 categories we track — any missing here means we couldn't verify it against current statute text, not that no deadline exists.
Not legal advice. These are general deadlines for when the state must file charges, drawn from each state's current statute. Real cases turn on facts a chart can't capture — when the clock is tolled, how a specific charge is classified, whether an exception applies — and getting this wrong in either direction carries real consequences. If you're asking because you or someone you know may be under investigation or charged, talk to a criminal defense attorney now, not after checking a chart.
Sex Crimes Against Children
No time limit
Covers continuous sexual assault of a minor under 14.
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About this data: Each period and citation above was extracted by hand from the actual statute text in our
statutes database
(sourced from official government publishers via the
Open US Law dataset, Vaquill AI, CC BY 4.0)
and cross-checked against that text, rather than copied from another site's chart — where we found a state's citation didn't match what's commonly cited elsewhere (a recent law change, for example), we used the current statute. Where a state's source text isn't in our database yet, we say so instead of linking to something we haven't verified.