If you have a pending criminal case and die, the criminal case is dismissed.
Now I know that some courts don't check the national death registry. They just dismiss the case based upon a death certificate, assuming that the death certificate is not forged.
What I realized I'm not sure of is whether the reason a case is dismissed goes into the Federal data base. In other words, if the police ran the ID of someone purporting to be this individual, they'd find he'd been charged with a crime and the case dismissed. That's not a problem.
It's a big problem if when they run a record it comes back that the case was dismissed because the person is dead.
Best of luck,
Jim Clark-Dawe
Now I know that some courts don't check the national death registry. They just dismiss the case based upon a death certificate, assuming that the death certificate is not forged.
What I realized I'm not sure of is whether the reason a case is dismissed goes into the Federal data base. In other words, if the police ran the ID of someone purporting to be this individual, they'd find he'd been charged with a crime and the case dismissed. That's not a problem.
It's a big problem if when they run a record it comes back that the case was dismissed because the person is dead.
Best of luck,
Jim Clark-Dawe