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2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 440 - ESCAPES, FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE, AND EXTRADITION
440.280 Arrest may be made without warrant -- Conditions -- Procedure.

KY Rev Stat § 440.280 (2014) What's This?

Download as PDF 440.280 Arrest may be made without warrant -- Conditions -- Procedure. 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 one (1) year, but when so arrested the accused must be taken before a judge with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in the preceding section; and thereafter his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant. Effective:June 16, 1960 History: Created 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 135, sec. 15, effective June 16, 1960.

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