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New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 594:18-a: Release of Persons Arrested Without Warrant.

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  1. Title LIX: PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES
  2. Chapter 594: ARRESTS IN CRIMINAL CASES
  3. Release or Detention

When a peace officer makes an arrest without a warrant, either he or his superior officer may release the person arrested instead of taking him before a district or municipal court if satisfied either that there is no ground for making a criminal complaint against such person or that such person has been arrested for drunkenness and no further proceedings are necessary. A person released as above provided shall have no right to sue any peace officer on the ground that he was released without being brought before a court.

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