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Section 24 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, [1] as of 1 January 2006, provides that a constable may arrest, without a warrant, anyone who is about to commit or is currently committing an offence (or anyone the constable has reasonable grounds to believe to be about to commit or currently committing an offence). The constable is ...
Section 24 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 defined an arrestable offence as: . An offence for which the sentence is fixed by law; e.g. murder. Offences for which a person 18 years old or older, who had not previously been convicted, could be sentenced to a term of 5 years or more.
Under section 66(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code, a citizen's arrest may be performed under two conditions: that the offense must have been committed in the view or presence of the individual making the arrest, and that the offense must be an arrestable and non-bailable offense (an offense for which a police officer may make an arrest without ...
Under section 50(1) of the Police Force Ordinance, a police officer can "apprehend" (i.e. arrest) a person if he reasonably suspects the person being arrested is guilty of an offence. Whether there is such a reasonable suspicion in a particular case is to be determined objectively by reference to facts and information which the arresting ...
The Illinois Digest is an indexed compilation of summaries of opinions, or digest. [1] The opinions of the Supreme Court and Appellate Court had been published in the Illinois Reports and Illinois Appellate Court Reports, respectively, from 1831 to 2011; [12] according to the University of Chicago Library, since 1819 and 1877, respectively. [1]
The court held that as police routinely exercise discretion in their work, requiring them to decide in the heat of the moment whether an offense is a fine-only crime for which an arrest is unwarranted ultimately exposes the police to greater legal consequences: either the exclusion of illegally obtained evidence or personal liability for ...
The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, commonly known as the SAFE-T Act, is a state of Illinois statute enacted in 2021 that makes a number of reforms to the criminal justice system, affecting policing, pretrial detention and bail, sentencing, and corrections.
Section 23, added in 1994, defines "court of the United States". Section 24, last amended in 2010, provides "definitions relating to Federal health care offense". Section 25, added in 2003, deals with the "use of minors in crimes of violence". Section 26, added in 2006, defines seaports. Section 27, added in 2009, defines "mortgage lending ...