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

RSA 612:14: Arrest Without a Warrant.

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  1. Title LIX: PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES
  2. Chapter 612: UNIFORM CRIMINAL EXTRADITION LAW

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 year, but when so arrested the accused must be taken before a judge or magistrate with all practicable speed, and complaint must be made against him, under oath, setting forth the ground for the arrest as in RSA 612:13, and, thereafter, his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.

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