their resources, making the limitation period of 12 months somewhat weak or even irrelevant in many instances. Someone who has committed a hybrid offence in the past can never be truly immune from prosecution simply because their crime is "out of statute", unlike in other jurisdictions. Some hybrid offences may have aggravating factors which automatically make them indictable offences (e.g. mischief causing actual danger to life, assault which causes the victim to be wounded, maimed or disfigured), removing the limitation period entirely.

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