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warrant
warrant in law, written order by an official of a court directed to an officer. The search warrant and the warrant of arrest are the most frequently used types. Warrants of attachment order the seizure of a defendant's goods pending trial or judicial determination of ownership and in certain... Read more |
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general warrants
general warrants. Eighteenth-cent. secretaries of state claimed a discretionary power in cases of seditious libel to issue general warrants for the arrest of persons unnamed. In 1763 Lord Halifax issued one for the apprehension of all connected with printing or publishing No. 45 of the North... Read more |
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Right of search
right of search 1 In domestic law, the right of officials to search persons or private property, usually obtained through some form of search warrant authorized by a court. In the United States, the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the security of the people "in their... Read more |
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Sir James Eyre
Sir James Eyre 1734-99, English jurist. As a young lawyer he was counsel (1763) for John Wilkes in the suit against the government that established the illegality of general warrants (warrants for the arrest of any or all persons, no names being specified, involved in an offense). He later became... Read more |
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Right to Counsel
SUPREME COURT RULINGS: CIRCUMSTANCES THAT DO AND DO NOT WARRANT THE DEATH PENALTY, RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE COUNSEL, APPEALS BASED ON NEW EVIDENCE, AND CONSTITUTIONALITY OF EXECUTION METHODS CIRCUMSTANCES FOUND NOT TO WARRANT THE DEATH PENALTY Rape and Kidnapping On June 29, 1977, a 5–4 divided... Read more |
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Fatal
FATAL Deadly or mortal; destructive; devastating. A fatal error in legal procedure is one that is of such a substantial nature as to harm unjustly the person who complains about it. It is synonymous with reversible error, which, in appellate practice, warrants the reversal of the judgment before... Read more |
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search warrant
search warrant in law, written order by an official of a court authorizing an officer to search in a specified place for specified objects and to seize them if found. The objects sought may be stolen goods or physical evidences of the commission of crime (e.g., narcotics). The Fourth Amendment to... Read more |
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arrest
arrest in law, seizure and detention of a person, either to bring him before a court body or official, or to otherwise secure the administration of the law. A person may be arrested for an alleged violation of civil or criminal law. Civil arrest is most often used when one has been guilty of civil ... Read more |
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Edmund Ludlow
Edmund Ludlow 1617?-1692, English parliamentarian and regicide. He commanded a regiment of cavalry in the English civil war and served on the court that condemned King Charles I, signing his death warrant. In 1651-52 he was assistant and then successor to Henry Ireton in the subjugation of... Read more |
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Thomas Pride
Thomas Pride d. 1658, English parliamentary soldier in the English civil war . In Dec., 1648, acting on the orders of the army council, he carried out Pride's Purge, expelling from Parliament 143 members (mostly Presbyterians) on the ground that they were royalist sympathizers. The remaining... Read more |
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Unserved warrants bogging down county court system
...every check results in a warrant," Clifford said...people named in the warrants, many might not even...if there is a pending warrant against someone they...against magistrate court records can the warrants be discovered. In recent...felony ... |
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Warrant Unserved, Md. Man Kills Wife; Arrest Order in Court Clerk's Office
...Gasparovic had signed a bench warrant for Steve Lancaster's arrest...Gasparovic said the arrest warrant would have been processed sooner...Clagett said that a bench warrant in Southern Maryland is normally...children, according to court records. She withdrew ... |
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Limit Access To Md. Warrants, Counties Urge
...computerized public records of arrest warrants...those warrants have been unserved for months, or in some...time limit after which unserved warrants would become...allowing public access to unserved ... |
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Don't Scoff ; As Arrest Warrants Pile Up, It's Easy To Think You Can Get Away...
...database of law enforcement records, which would provide...information in serving warrants. Gov. Ed Rendell...factor in the pile of warrants revolves around technology...cut down the city's warrant backlog, instead has seen the numbers of ... |
 "The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)")
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The Baltimore Sun Gregory Kane column: Unreturned warrants indicate a bigger...
...ruled that the personnel records of Hersl and Nellis...increasing number of search warrants which had been signed...service or even when the warrants went unserved. Maryland Rule 4...requires that a served warrant be returned no later...are ... |
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Ireland's Track Record Warrants Her Election
...and justice issues which account on average for more than 70 percent of expenditures." She says thousands of warrants go unserved in Washington each year and county jails are overcrowded, partly because the Sentencing Reform Act has required... |
 "The Washington Times (Washington, DC)")
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Warrant foul-up under scrutiny; PG deputy served papers, didn't take wanted...
...arrested on the open warrant. He was charged Monday...killing, and court records say that under interrogation...number of outstanding warrants on file since December...scrutiny for mishandling warrants. Last year, under...criticized when a felony ... |
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Qld: Officer's death warrants police action
...abscondfrom police. The record also showed Semyraha...apprehensive about issuing a warrant so lateat night considering...believed issuing the arrest warrant wouldbe an "easy pinch...incident. "Usually warrants are ... no-brainer...a chance to servethe ... |
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Qld: Officer's death warrants police action rpt
...abscondfrom police. The record also showed Semyraha...apprehensive about issuing a warrant so lateat night considering...believed issuing the arrest warrant wouldbe an "easy pinch...incident. "Usually warrants are ... no-brainer...a chance to servethe ... |
 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Ousted juror arrested on '96 warrant.
...police arrested her on a warrant issued in 1996, a police...concealed previous arrest records during jury selection...didn't appear and a warrant was issued for her arrest...authorities said. That warrant went unserved for nearly 10 years... |
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