15 §214. Arrest without warrant; hearing - Maine Statutes

Title 15: COURT PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL

Part 1: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE GENERALLY

Chapter 9: CRIMINAL EXTRADITION

Subchapter 3: ARREST AND PROCEEDINGS PRIOR TO ISSUANCE OF GOVERNOR'S WARRANT

§214. Arrest without warrant; hearing

The arrest of a person may be lawfully made by an officer or a private citizen 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 judge or magistrate with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in section 213. Thereafter his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.