A legal question for my fellow Yahoo-ers:?

Thirty-some years ago, a close friend of mine, a fellow-traveller (using that term I am betraying my age) on the hard-left as I am, was kicked-out of the Southern university that he attended for being a member of the Communist Party U.S.A. The miserable bastards revoked his scholarship, forcing him out.
A couple years later, while working for a nearby company that laid carpet, he was sent to the scool鈥檚 office of records and transcripts to lay a carpet one night afterhours.
Finding a blank transcript form, he typed-up a transcript showing that he had graduated, with an 4.0 GPA, and put it into the files, those being the days before such records were maintained by computer.
Later he got a good government job based on his sterling academic record, and is now retired with a pension. He now wants to reveal all this in a story he鈥檚 writing.
Obviously it was a criminal forgery at the time he did it. Has the statute of limitations now passed, so that he can safely admit his actions?

He should really talk to an attorney about this and he will need to give much more specific information. He could potentially have some problems.

For example (in simple terms), in Georgia the statute of limitations, which would normally bar prosecution after a certain length of time does not begin to run until the offense has been discovered.

Your friend is right and wrong for the situation that happened to him, but there shouldn't be anything they can do to him. They should have checked him out better than they did. Besides, after kicking him out of college for political affiliation is just plain wrong.

This is a question for a lawyer, not a public forum.

That said, I would strongly recommend that your friend stay quiet, because there is a possibility that he could lose his pension.

Searching "forgery statute of limitations" seems to indicate that there is not statute of limitations for forgery.

Here is the Statute of Limitations on non-capital offenses in Louisiana:

http://www.legis.state.la.us/lss/lss.asp...