MICHIGAN
MLive
By Kyle Feldscher | kylefeldscher@mlive.com
on May 05, 2015
LANSING — A panel of Michigan lawmakers questioned the constitutionality of a bill to allow criminal cases against people accused of molesting children decades ago, despite emotional testimony from alleged victims of a Norton Shores man.
House Bill 4231 would retroactively remove all statute of limitations on first-degree criminal sexual conduct of a minor. In 2001, the Michigan Legislature eliminated the statute of limitations on first-degree criminal sexual conduct, which prior to that was six years.
However, Public Act 6 of 2001 did not remove the statute of limitations for crimes that occurred before May 2001.
That means Randall Doctor, a Norton Shores man currently in prison on drug charges, could not be charged for allegedly molesting between eight and 10 boys — now men —in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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