Does a defendant have cause for an arrest warrant to be issued against him?

Finally, defendant submits we should not consider the arrest warrant because the People did not raise the warrant below when his counsel asserted a statute of limitations challenge. But his statute of limitations argument belowthat the supposed six-year limitations period had rungave the prosecutor no cause to raise the warrant. And since it is proper for defendant to assert a new theory of untimely prosecution on appeal (People v. Williams (1999) 21 Cal.4th 335, 341 [defendant may raise statute of limitations at any time where charging document indicates on its face that the action is time-barred]), it must likewise be proper for the People to counter that new theory with a new response.