Not in New York and not in most states.

A grievance committee can take a complaint about conduct from thirty years ago and act on it, because the question is not whether a crime can still be charged.

The question is whether a person should still be permitted to practise law, and that question is always current.

Peter Nadeau told me that in the November, in about two sentences, at the end of a long meeting about something else, and I did not understand what he had handed me for about a week.

The complaint goes to the Attorney Grievance Committee for the judicial department where the lawyer practises.