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A bench warrent question

I have a husband that was locked up about three weeks ago for a warrent for his arrest, from a case from 2000, and basically he has to go to three court hearings and the case will be dismissed because the cop will not testify against he, anyways he got arrested where we live now and the case happened in philadelphia, well when he got locked up the judge or whoever told him that philadelphia had 96 hours to come get him or he will be released, then they changed it to ten days, well he completed his ten days and philadelphia didn't come get him, well now they told him that they are giving philadelphia another extension, meaning they are giving them more time, my question is are they allowed another extension after he sat in jail for ten days, and they never came? please help in any way possible. thanks


Asked on 3/12/06, 7:42 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Marc V. Taiani AAAL - Allegheny Attorneys At Law

Re: A bench warrent question

I don't know where you are getting this information, but your husband may spend every day until his trial in jail if you don't act. The bottom line here is a bench warrant is an arrest warrant issued by a judge while sitting on the bench...ie bench warrant. Your husband received this warrant because he probably failed to appear before the court. The point here is he should have retained counsel initially and this would never have happened.

The bottom lin now is retain an attorney to represent him or risk him being incarcerated for next few months. Call my office for more information.

Sincerely,

Marc V. Taiani, Esquire

AAAL - Allegheny Attorneys At Law, PC

412.731.0865

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Answered on 3/13/06, 8:24 am


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