I was arrested 7 months ago for receiving stolen property because a friend used stolen credit card to buy things and sent to my house. I didn't know he used stolen credit card. The value of the merchandise exceeds 500usd so the police told me they would charge me with a felony. 7 months had passed and still nothing from them. I talked to my lawyer and she told me that the best strategy at this point is to wait it out, and that in her experience when a case drags on this long without prosecution the DA will unlikely to gather any additional evidence to prove that I have guilty knowledge of the crime (in this case there isn't any evidence to discover because I really did not know). Can anybody tell me the time it takes for a felony charge to be dismissed due to insufficient evidence? Just an estimate of course, I know that the stature of limitations does not expire for 4 yrs and I hope that I won't have to wait the whole 4 yrs for the case to be dropped. Thank you so much for your help.

