Connecticut Statutes

§ 54-170 — Arrest without warrant.

Connecticut·Title 54 Criminal Procedure·Ch. 964 Uniform Criminal Extradition Act
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 shall be taken before such a judge with all practicable speed and complaint shall be made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in section 54-169; and thereafter his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.

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Parks v. Bourbeau
477 A.2d 636 (Supreme Court of Connecticut, 1984)
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Legislative History

(1957, P.A. 362, S. 14; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 196.) History: 1959 act deleted reference to trial justice. Cited. 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631; 193 C. 270.

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