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Criminal Defense Lawyer Explains What a Ramey Warrant is in California

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 by Matthew J. Ruff

In California, explains one criminal lawyer in mojave,  an arrest warrant is a court order directing officers to arrest a certain person if and when they locate him or her. Pen C §816. When a Judge of a Superior Court gets enough information via an affidavit to convince him or her from the officer’s declaration that probable cause exists that the offense described has been committed and that the described defendant committed the offense, a judge may issue a warrant of probable cause for the defendant’s arrest. Pen C §817(a)(1). Such arrest warrants are called Ramey warrants. The seminal case is that of People v Ramey (1976) 16 C3d 263, 270–276. In comparison to a conventional arrest warrant (Pen C §§813–815), Ramey warrants are issued before a complaint has been filed against the suspect. This may occur according to one Criminal Defense Attorney, for example, when an officer lacks sufficient evidence to file charges, but hopes to obtain sufficient evidence to file a complaint through questioning, lineups, or other investigatory techniques.
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Topic: White Collar Crime
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