§ 941.14, Fla. Stat. · Part I. UNIFORM INTERSTATE EXTRADITION
Arrest without a warrant.
Text — 2026 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.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
s. 14, ch. 20460, 1941; s. 1605, ch. 97-102; s. 45, ch. 2004-11.
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