Criminal Statutes of Limitations in Arkansas

No limit (prosecution may be commenced at any time) for capital murder, murder in the first and second degree, rape if the victim was a minor, felony sexual indecency with a child, capital rape, sexual assault in the first degree, sexual assault in the second degree if the victim was a minor, incest if the victim was a minor, engaging children in sexually explicit conduct for use in visual or print medium, transportation of minors for prohibited sexual conduct, employing or consenting to the use of a child in a sexual performance, producing, directing or promoting a sexual performance by a child, computer exploitation of a child in the first degree, and fertility treatment fraud. Otherwise: Class Y felony or Class A felony, six (6) years (for rape, the period is eliminated if biological evidence capable of producing a DNA profile is identified); Class B, C, D or unclassified felony, three (3) years; misdemeanor or violation, one (1) year.