What is the Statute of Limitations on a Wobbler

My question involves criminal law for the state of: California

I was charged with felony Grand Theft by Embezzlement and felony Unauthorized Use of Personal Identifying Information. I am innocent and have been fighting these charges for 1yr and 4months. (The charges were brought against me due to a business partnership that went awry. I am accused of embezzling $3300.)

On 7/25/2017 the District Attorney reduced the charges to misdemeanors. My court records show the charges as misdemeanors now, rather than felonies. The statue of limitations on felonies is 3 years, and the original charges were filed within that 3 year period. However, as misdemeanors there is only a 1 year statue of limitations. The charges against me were NOT filed within 1 year. (Maybe this was why they originally charged me with felonies?!)

Now that the charges are reduced which statue of limitation applies - felony (3yrs) or misdemeanor (1yr)? Can I file ask for the case be dismissed because the statue of limitations had expired for the crime they are now charging me with? If it is dismissed, can they re-file felony charges again? Or isn't that allowed because the 3 year statue of limitations for felony charges has now expired as well?)

Here are the exact dates from my court records....

6/25/2014 Violation Date
That is the date listed on the court documents. However, they are claiming I embezzled from them on 6 occasions - 1x per month with the last occurrence on 11/4/2014. On 6/25/2014 I told one of the other "partners" that I was taking the payments from a client and placing them into a PayPal account I set up under the business name. That partner provided me with the Tax ID #.)

7/12/14 same partner told me I should use the money I collected in that account as my own rather than having them reissue it back to me. I was an Independent Contractor and the company normally paid me in cash. They also owed me a considerable amount of money in unpaid commissions so this arrangement was a way for them to pay that to me over 18 months. Plus, self-financing a client was not something we commonly did. I felt it was the company's way of saying that I took the risk that this client would pay every month, and if the client didn't, then it would be my problem to collect if I wanted to get paid.)

September-October 2014 Began having issues with the company not paying commissions for other jobs I had sold. Company was in general having problems (ex. they "forgot" to renew their General Contractor license with the CSLB so all our work came to a halt for almost 3 weeks; clients complained that work was unfinished; jobs sold but never started/built.)

11/21/2014 Sent request to the company for $14k in unpaid commissions. This $14k was less the 6 payments I already received in the PayPal account and I listed them as a separate line item and less the 12 upcoming payments I was scheduled to receive, which I listed as another, separate line item.

11/23/2014 Company requested I cease collecting payments, which I immediately did (even though I there was one scheduled for the following week.) The company bad-mouthed me to clients (including the client who had made these payments), and to other home improvement contractors in the area. I resubmitted my invoice for unpaid commissions with an updated total which reflected the 6 payments I already received listed, and not the 12 upcoming payments.

9/23/2015 Charges Filed

08/02/2016 Arrested on 2 felony warrants (I knew NOTHING of the charges. When I was arrested, my first thought was that someone had stole my identity, then committed these crimes using my identity.)

9/23/2016 Plea Date (Not Guilty)

7/25/2017 District Attorney reduces charges from felonies to misdemeanors. Change in court to misdemeanor court room, judge and public defender.

The dates that matter are the date prosecution commenced (which appears to be 9/23/2015) and when the act was discovered (or should have been discovered).

First, even if you were initially charged as a misdemeanor, it would appear that the charges were commenced timely (at least for the ones that happened after 9/23/2014, perhaps more).

Second, wobblers that were initially charged as felonies can indeed still be prosecuted under the three year limitations period even if reducd to misdemeanors. (People v. Mincey).