Legal Question in Criminal Law in Illinois

Re: fictional story

If this is all "fiction", why are you asking US?

Your question really cannot be answered because there are too many unknown facts:

* what was the total value of the stuff taken;

* defendant's prior record;

* which county this is in because each prosecuting attorney decides on his/her own whether to issue a charge or not and this might be in a county where they take a tough stand on every case or in a county where the prosecutor is known to cut people slack if they make things right in a timely fashion; etc.);

* etc.

There are felony and misdemeanor theft / embezzlement charging options depending on what the Big Picture is, including the issues I listed above.

I doubt that charges would be "dropped" unless the 1-year delay impacted the prosecutor's ability to prove some critical case facts. For example, maybe a necessary witness has died in the last year.

Re: fictional story

For information on theft crimes, go to:

www.AggressiveCriminalDefense.com