Several Stasi officials were prosecuted for their crimes after 1990.
Until 1994, child molesters could not be prosecuted in California more than six years after the offense.
There have been several recent instances in England of cases being successfully prosecuted after twenty years or more.
Göring was prosecuted at the Nuremberg Trials after the war.
They involved the some of the most important people to be prosecuted after the 24 Major War Criminals.
Under French law, sexual assault is a lesser crime than attempted rape and cannot be prosecuted more than three years after the event.
The film was unsuccessfully prosecuted as a video nasty a few years after its release.
Why he did so, and why he was not prosecuted after the war, remain a mystery.
Seventeen women are prosecuted on conspiracy charges after the occupation of a nuclear bunker near Carmarthen.