Florida's three-year statute of limitations may help save Mark Foley from any criminal prosecution, ABC's The Blotter reports:
“The Florida Department of Law Enforcement did not start a criminal investigation of Foley until November 2006, making it nearly impossible to prosecute what some officials regarded as the best case, an explicit instant message sent by Foley to a 17-year-old high school student in February 2003, when Foley was in Pensacola, Fla.”
Late last month, The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said the case should be closed shortly as they were not able to obtain access to Foley's computers.