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N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law § 570.34: Arrest of accused without warrant therefor
Where this section sits in the code
- Criminal Procedure Law
- Part 3. Special Proceedings and Miscellaneous Procedures
- Title Q. Procedures For Securing Attendance At Criminal Actions and Proceedings of Defendants Not Securable By Conventional Means--and Related Matters
- Article 570. Securing Attendance of Defendants Who Are Outside the State But Within the United States--rendition to Other Jurisdictions of Defendants Within the State--uniform Criminal Extradition Act
§ 570.34 Arrest of accused without warrant therefor.
The arrest of a person in this state may be lawfully made also by any
police officer or a private person, without a warrant, upon reasonable
information that the accused stands charged in the courts of another
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 local criminal court 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 answers shall
be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.
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