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37 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 199 (1995-1996)
Conflict of the Criminal Statute of Limitations with Lesser Offenses at Trial

handle is hein.journals/wmlr37 and id is 211 raw text is: CONFLICT OF THE CRIMINAL STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS WITH LESSER OFFENSES AT TRIAL ALAN L. ADLESTEIN I. INTRODUCTION ............................... 200 II. THE CRIMINAL STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS AND LESSER OFFENSES-DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONFLICT ........ 206 A. Prelude: The Problem of Jurisdictional Labels ..... 206 B. The Jurisdictional Label and the Criminal Statute of Limitations ................ 207 C. The Jurisdictional Label and the Lesser Offense .... 209 D. Challenges to the Jurisdictional Label-In re Winship, Keeble v. United States, and United States v. Wild ..................... 211 E. Lesser Offenses and the Supreme Court's Capital Cases- Beck v. Alabama, Spaziano v. Florida, and Schad v. Arizona ........................... 217 1. Beck v. Alabama-Legislative Preclusion of Lesser Offenses ................................ 217 2. Spaziano v. Florida-Does the Due Process Clause Require Waivability? ....................... 222 3. Schad v. Arizona-The Single Non-Capital Option ....................... 228 F. The Conflict Illustrated in the Federal Circuits and the States ....................... 230 1. The Conflict in the Federal Circuits ........... 232 2. The Conflict in the States .................. 234 III. HISTORY, NATURE, AND PURPOSE OF THE DOCTRINES IN CONFLICT ................................... 248 A. The Criminal Statute of Limitations ............. 248 1. The History and Nature of the Statute ......... 249 * Associate Professor, Widener University School of Law. B.A., 1963, Cornell University;, J.D., 1966, Harvard University. The author thanks Michael J. Cozzillio, John L. Gedid, Maureen S. Kordesh, and Robert C. Power for their helpful com- ments on earlier drafts of this Article.