if a search warrant is dated incorrectly is still valid?
600777
That depends on where you fight it. If you bring this issue up while the police are at your front door, they wait (probably right outside your front door) for a new warrant to be issued and search anyway.\n\nIf you let them search and they find anything incriminating, you have a good chance of getting it deemed inadmissable against you, as long as you get an okay lawyer. \n\nThat does not mean that you get to walk away and go home. Unless of course, there isn't a major stack of other evidence against you to have supported the request for a  search in the first place.\n\nBut be warned, while the search may have been questionable, the law still has the right to claim 'eventual discovery' and have evidence previously declared inadmissable, deemed admissable again. All they have to do is prove that they could have found the evidence against you without having to search your home.
890778
I have seen low-level misdemeanor "Theft by Check" (Hot Check) warrants surface after 15 years. However, let me say that 20+ years ago the criminal background records were not maintained very well. If your offense was a low-level misdemeanor then it may have never been put in the system. However if you are really interested you can easily find out. Just call the local sheriff's office where the offense occurred (albeit 23 years ago) and just ask to speak to a person in the warrants section. Give them your name and date of birth and ask if you have a warrant. If you do have a warrant the sheriff's office will tell you.
498974
Call up the court house and ask them whether there are any warrants outstanding against you. \n\nIf they say no, you're a free man. If they say yes, hire a lawyer and have him appear in court on your behalf.
1067184
Only an order from the court can expunge a record.  The problem today is that there is still a paper trail, police records and so forth that will remain anyway.  Sometimes it is simply better to move on and leave the past in the past.
467672
Bizarre question, and difficult to answer without knowing at least what country you're in.\n\nWe'll assume you're in the US, and we'll further assume you're in California (though it's probably the same throughout the states).\n\nIf you're arraigned, the legal process has begun.  The case will not "expire" and if you fail to appear for further proceedings, you'll more than likely be charged with a failure to appear (FTA) and an arrest warrant will be issued.\n\nArrest warrants, by the way, are good forever.
505151
look under dept of correction for the state. Some don't allow you to do searches. \nGood Luck!!
613655
May depend on the state but... Basically you affirm under oath that what you say is true and did happen to the best of your knowledge. A court date will be set and it will be you plus the state or DA vs the defendent. You had better be able to prove your case in court and have been truthful in the warrant. If you weren't or etc. you could face civil suite by the defendent. If things are what you said then I would not worry and press forward with the truth. There are other things along the way... arraignment, pre-trial, hearing or trial etc. Depends on if the defendent pleads guilty.
174592
Arrest warrants are valid until they have been served. Issuing an arrest warrant is sufficient to satsify statutes of limitations, so even if you manage to avoid the police until the time elapsed, they would still be able to charge you.
348316
To my knowledge, a bench warrant never expires.  So whatever you did- commit to resolving the situation.  The court system is 'nicer' to someone who chooses to cooperate and handle their business.  I know someone who had a warrant for a speeding ticket they got at the age of 16.  He was the passenger in a car that got pulled over for speeding.  The officer that stopped them checked i.d. for everyone in the car, and the warrant came up..... He was 27!!!!!  He was sentenced to 60 days in jail, 1500 hours of community service, and $1000.00 fine.
785890
Most states/counties have a web site where a person can enter a name to find out if there are any outstanding warrants, but I don't know if the web site tells what the warrant has been issued for. Whatever it's for, it won't go away until whatever caused the problem in the first place is resolved - and that requires going to court at some point. Sorry this isn't much help. Good luck.
816600
You need to look up the public records for the county that the warrant may be located in.  I cant direct you to a specific site unless you specify the county.
369292
Warrants don't lapse. The police keep them on file and exercise them whenever they catch up to the person who has an outstanding warrant against them. What do you think they are doing when they get on their radios after they have pulled you over? They use your drivers license number to track these things down and your car license plates as well. They can ask you to come to the station and supply finger prints if they have cause to believe you are wanted for something, so even phony ID won't help you.
1122506
no, its 90% inaccurate & inadmissable in a court of law. to take it could only serve against you. refuse it.
962330
I am not a supreme court scholar, but if evidence of a separate crime is discovered during an initial search, which is later found to have been faulty this is called fruits of the original search or something to that effect.  The answer to the best of my knowledge is that no, the fruits of the orignal search would be inadmissable.  However, I believe that there have been some recent Supreme Court rulings that may have loosen the rules in this regard.  If the orignal search was based upon good intentions, the new rules might just allow those previously poisoned fruits to be admitted.  Any legal scholars out there??
402939
You may be arrested and be extradited to the jurisdiction where the warrant is.  Or you may have no consequence..depending on the extradition policies of the departments.
983770
The wrong address or other minor error does not invalidate the ticket. Most police agencies have an employee who enters tickets into an automated system and, in the process of doing so, finds those errors. The agency will then send you a "cite correction letter" that explains and corrects the error.\n\nEven if the agency does not do so, the generally accepted rules of the courts say that a minor error such as a date or time error, spelling error, error in vehicle color, etc., will not invalidate a citation.\n\nHere is my personal experience with these kinds of situations. I once dated a ticket a year back from the actual date of the offense. I wrote that the incident occurred on in January of 2005 when the incident actually occurred in January of 2006. When the ticket went to court the person who received the citation tried to make a big deal of this error. My response - Sorry, I made a mistake on the date. That was as far as it went and they were convicted.
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WHAT?\n\nIf you are asked for permission to search your car, and you decline to give permission to have your car searched, that does NOT provide probable cause.  What a ridiculous notion.  It is your right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure, and merely exercising that right does not give the government probable cause to conduct it.  What kind of sense would that make?\n\nThe answer to your question, quite simply, is yes.  There are many reasons why the police might be able to legally search your vehicle without your permission, and if you've got a specific circumstances you're wondering about, post it and we'll see.\n\nProbable cause is one of the ways the police can search your car, and yes - the police get to decide that right there on the spot.  It's always subject to litigation later in court, but the police are allowed to search a vehicle under almost all conditions where probable cause is present.\n\nThere's a comment here about "Nope, but, it's your right to stop them if they do" and if that person is suggesting that you physically try to stop a police officer from searching your car, you're going to learn real quick that that isn't acceptable.  You always have the right to say no...always...even with a warrant, but that doesn't mean your wishes will be honored.  And if you try to physically enforce your wishes, I can just about guarantee you a really quick trip to the pokey.\n\nPolice cannot just impound your vehicle until you consent.  Equally ridiculous notion.  Given probable cause, police do not need to impound your vehicle and can just search it right there.\n\nMy answers are based on the Constitution and California law.  Iowa cannot make it any easier for the police than the Constitution does, but they can make it more restrictive.  I'd be willing to bet the rules are the same in Iowa, though.\n\nEDIT 4.26.06:\n\nDo we sometimes search "just because"?  Well, "just because" isn't a legal theory that allows a search, so we'd be wrong to search without your permission just because we chose to.  With your permission, however, we certainly could search "just because," and I suppose I have when I've had the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and I've received consent.