2019 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 25. Extradition and Detainers
Subchapter I Extradition; Uniform Criminal Extradition Law
§ 2514 Arrest without warrant.

Universal Citation:
11 DE Code § 2514 (2019)
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The arrest of a person may be lawfully made 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 shall be taken before a judge or justice of the peace with all practicable speed and complaint shall be made against the accused under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in § 2513 of this title, and thereafter the accused’s answer shall be heard as if the accused had been arrested on a warrant.

41 Del. Laws, c. 213, § 14; 11 Del. C. 1953, § 2514; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.

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