Arizona legal term
Custody in Arizona Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Arizona legislative session
In Arizona criminal law, “Custody” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Arizona criminal code.
What does “Custody” mean in Arizona criminal law?
"Custody" includes the imposition of actual or constructive restraint pursuant to an on-site arrest, a court order or any contact in which a reasonable person would not feel free to leave. (A.R.S. § 13-1412)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Abduction of child from a state agency
- Cruelty to animals
- Duty to report abuse, physical injury, neglect and denial or deprivation of medical or surgical care or nourishment of minors
- Escape in the second degree
- Unlawful copying or sale of sounds or images from recording devices
- Unlawful imprisonment
- Avoidance of command of writ
- Child or vulnerable adult abuse
- Child sex trafficking
- Commercial sexual exploitation of a minor
- Dangerous or deadly assault by prisoner or juvenile
- Escape in the first degree
Related terms in the same statutes
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