Criminal Statutes of Limitations in Oklahoma

There is no limitation of the time within which a prosecution for murder must be commenced. First and second degree manslaughter: within ten (10) years after discovery (the date the crime is reported to law enforcement). General rule: in all other cases a prosecution for a public offense must be commenced within three (3) years after its commission. Longer periods include: bribery, embezzlement of public money, falsification of public records and conspiracy to defraud the state, seven (7) years after discovery; arson, and felonies committed or attempted with a deadly weapon, seven (7) years after commission; solicitation for first degree murder, seven (7) years after discovery; listed sexual crimes against children (including rape, sodomy, lewd acts, child pornography and child trafficking), by the forty-fifth birthday of the alleged victim, and for such crimes against victims eighteen (18) or older, within twenty (20) years after discovery (report to law enforcement); these may be commenced at any time if preserved DNA evidence later establishes probable cause as to identity, or if the accused has confessed or made an admission. Human trafficking: three (3) years after discovery.