Statute of Limitations in Kansas

[dan0]

My question involves criminal law for the state of: Kansas.
When I was younger (under 18) I travelled with the wrong crowd. We broke into one house and took food and into an industrial area several times and stole equipment from their trucks. I'm not sure the total value of the items from the industrial area, but I know it was more than $1000. It was soon after that I saw the error of my ways and quit hanging out with those individuals. None of us ever got caught so no charges were filed. What are the statute of limitations for these two crimes? I have to take a polygraph for work within the next year or so and want to be able to fully disclose everything and not be charged for my stupidity in my youth.

[aaron]

The Kansas criminal statute of limitations provides:

(1) A prosecution for murder, terrorism or illegal use of weapons of mass destruction may be commenced at any time.

(2) Except as provided in subsection (5), a prosecution for any crime must be commenced within 10 years after its commission if the victim is the Kansas public employees retirement system.

(3)

(a) Except as provided in subsection (5), a prosecution for a sexually violent offense as defined in K.S.A. 22-3717, and amendments thereto, must be commenced within the limitation of time provided by the law pertaining to such offense or one year from the date on which the identity of the suspect is conclusively established by DNA testing, whichever is later.
(b) For purposes of this section, "DNA" means deoxyribonucleic acid.

(4) Except as provided by subsection (5), a prosecution for any crime, as defined in K.S.A. 21-3105, and amendments thereto, not governed by subsections (1), (2) or (3) must be commenced within five years after it is committed.

(5) The period within which a prosecution must be commenced shall not include any period in which:

(a) The accused is absent from the state;

(b) the accused is concealed within the state so that process cannot be served upon the accused;

(c) the fact of the crime is concealed;

(d) a prosecution is pending against the defendant for the same conduct, even if the indictment or information which commences the prosecution is quashed or the proceedings thereon are set aside, or are reversed on appeal;

(e) an administrative agency is restrained by court order from investigating or otherwise proceeding on a matter before it as to any criminal conduct defined as a violation of any of the provisions of article 41 of chapter 25 and article 2 of chapter 46 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated which may be discovered as a result thereof regardless of who obtains the order of restraint; or

(f) whether or not the fact of the crime is concealed by the active act or conduct of the accused, there is substantially competent evidence to believe two or more of the following factors are present: (i) The victim was a child under 15 years of age at the time of the crime; (ii) the victim was of such age or intelligence that the victim was unable to determine that the acts constituted a crime; (iii) the victim was prevented by a parent or other legal authority from making known to law enforcement authorities the fact of the crime whether or not the parent or other legal authority is the accused; and (iv) there is substantially competent expert testimony indicating the victim psychologically repressed such witness' memory of the fact of the crime, and in the expert's professional opinion the recall of such memory is accurate and free of undue manipulation, and substantial corroborating evidence can be produced in support of the allegations contained in the complaint or information but in no event may a prosecution be commenced as provided in this section later than the date the victim turns 28 years of age. Corroborating evidence may include, but is not limited to, evidence the defendant committed similar acts against other persons or evidence of contemporaneous physical manifestations of the crime. "Parent or other legal authority" shall include but not be limited to natural and stepparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles or siblings.

(6) An offense is committed either when every element occurs, or, if a legislative purpose to prohibit a continuing offense plainly appears, at the time when the course of conduct or the defendant's complicity therein is terminated. Time starts to run on the day after the offense is committed.

(7) A prosecution is commenced when a complaint or information is filed, or an indictment returned, and a warrant thereon is delivered to the sheriff or other officer for execution. No such prosecution shall be deemed to have been commenced if the warrant so issued is not executed without unreasonable delay.