California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Landa, A124734, No. CH44293 (Cal. App. 2010):
As an initial matter, we note that appellant has pointed to no rule, nor could we find one that imposes upon the prosecution a duty to specifically identify in the information the statute of limitations applicable to each charged offense. As a general matter, "a 'defendant has no right to notice of the specific time or place of an offense, so long as it occurred within the applicable limitation period." ' "Beyond that... the prosecution clearly has no duty to provide more explicit notice than human nature or science permit." ' [Citations.] Under modern pleading procedures, notice of the particular circumstances of an alleged crime is provided by the evidence presented to the committing magistrate at the preliminary examination, not by a factually detailed information." (People v. Jennings (1991) 53 Cal.3d 334, 358.)
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