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Fla. Stat. § 941.14 — Arrest without a warrant

Current through 2025 Florida Statutes

Part of Part I: Uniform Interstate Extradition, Florida Statutes.

Full text of Fla. Stat. § 941.14

Statutory text current through the 2025 Florida Statutes. This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of Florida.

Fla. Stat. § 941.14Primary source, current through the 2025 Florida Statutes
The arrest of a person may be lawfully made also by any peace officer or a private person, without a warrant upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged in the courts of a state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding 1 year, but when so arrested the accused must be taken before a judge with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against the accused under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in the preceding section; and thereafter his or her answer shall be heard as if the accused had been arrested on a warrant.

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