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Originally Posted by Rochard
Generally speaking.... If police had no suspects and were determined to solve a crime, yes, they would begin looking into other past felons to see if it was possible if they were involved.
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What I am trying to figure out is if there is a normal period of time they would go back and check? Obviously they don't go back 100 years, so how far back is normal?
Hypothetical: guy is convicted for attempted murder and gets 10 years prison. The people involved in deciding how much time he should get become this felons targets. As he sits in prison, stewing on how to get his revenge, a fellow prisoner coaches him on how to get revenge. He tells this hypothetical felon to wait over 20 years to get his revenge because the detectives will only do a 20 year felon search in the county to look for possible suspects and his name wouldn't come up.
Someone on gfy must know of normal protocol and if this 20 year search holds any water.