Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

Re: Statute of limitations

After Florida authorities detained you San Diego was notified of your arrest. The decision was then made not to go to the expense of returning to San Diego. This saved you the cost of a round trip airline ticket for a police officer, an airline ticket for your self, and the police officers reasonable costs for housing food etc. That does not mean that the warrant was voided.

Obtaining the advice of an attorney is important. depending upon the nature of the charges that gave rise to the warrant. As a general rule even if there is a statute of limitations on a warrant, the time during which you resided in Florida will not count toward the time for running of the statute of limitations.

Re: Statute of limitations--REPLY.

Hello---Thank you for your question. Well, from a practical point of view, any Warrant which is still listed as "active" is a Warrant that can be executed by law enforcement. Therefore, even if the Warrant has exceeded its original life, the fact is, that you may be arrested on it, and then have it resolved several days of custody later (as you already know from your experience in Florida). A better way to resolve this would be to retain an experienced Attorney who can either resolve it without your appearance, or if necessary, resolve it by appearing with you in San Diego. If you would like to discuss, please email me, or call: (562) 754-7422. Thanks, Attorney George Woodworth