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2017 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 12 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 12-9 - Extradition
Section 12-9-17 - Arrest without warrant.
Universal Citation: RI Gen L § 12-9-17 (2017)
§ 12-9-17. Arrest without warrant.
The arrest of a person may also 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 one year, but when so arrested, the accused must be taken before a judge with all practicable speed, and complaint must be made against him or her under oath, setting forth the ground for the arrest as in § 12-9-16; and thereafter after that his or her answer shall be heard as if he or she had been arrested on a warrant.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1947, ch. 1890, § 14; G.L. 1956, § 12-9-17.)
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