Warrants

It can depend on the type of warrant. Generally, if the the questions: who - what - where, are answered - accompanied by a short description of the probable cause presented to the judge/magistrate who approved it, that is all that is ncessary.

Agencies of the Executive Branch of government (i.e.: law enforcement) APPLY for them. The applications (called "affidavits" are submitted to the judicial branch of government (i.e.: judges, magistrates), who, after review for legal correctness, ISSUE them.

In the Bill of Rights the fourth amendment says the government must have a warrant and probable cause to search and/or seizure of your property.

A judicial officer, yes. It can be a judge, or magistrate, or in some states a Justice Of The Peace.

It depends on what the criminal charge happens to be. One thing is for certain, you run just as big, if not greater, a risk by remaining a wanted fugitive.

It will depend on the location and the level of the drug charge. For a felony there may be no limit. For a misdemeanor it would be something fairly short, say 2 or 3 years. But it can be tolled for certain reasons as well.

Also: Because the question states "criminal" drug possession you may also be facing

possible federal charges as well, for which there is no SOL.

Without probable cause or reasonable grounds an officer of the law cannot enter your house. If they did, anything they find or seize would be used against them in a court of law for unlawful search and seizure. Im sure as well they would need a warrant to enter your house in the first place.

Bench warrants are generally issued for violations of state law. A person may be arrested on a bench warrant in any part of the state where it is issued, or even in another state is the issuing state is willing to extradite the offender.

If there is a warrant outstanding for your arrest, you would be considered a "fugitive from justice", and by Federal law, are barred from buying a firearms.

I'm sure it depends on the city. Here, police officer are so busy with other things, they don't actively look for people with warrants. If you have an outstanding warrant against you, it will probably come up on a traffic stop when they run your driver license and you will be arrested then.

In order to search your home, the Government should have any of these: 1. A valid Search Warrant. 2. Probable Cause to assume a serious crime is being committed at that very moment (loud stereo would not qualify; gunfire would). 3. Probable Cause that someone needs rescue at that very moment. 4. Must be in pursuit and have cause to believe the fugitive ran into the house 5. Your permission. Various new access clauses that have not been interpreted or tested appear in the PATRIOT act, that may or may not allow searchs in the interest of national security. If law enforcement personnel legally enter your property, they are bound to search only for whatever is listed in the search warrant, but may also seize illegal or evidentiary items in plain sight. An officer with a search warrant for a piano may not legally search drawers in your cabinet, but may seize the pot plant growing on the dining room table.

An information is where the district attorney or prosecutor charges a defendant of some crime or crimes, whereas an indictment is where the a defendant is charged after a grand jury has heard the evidence. The evidence usually meets a certain standard such as legally sufficient standard or probable cause.

There is no way of answering this. It will be ENTIRELY up to the judge who sentenced you. When you get brought back to court you COULD be sentenced to serve the balance of your sentence behind bars.

It is very likely that if the Mexican authorities found out, the individual would be arrest and turned over to the United States (extradited).

Just like marriage ... 'til death.

When they check your ID against the state data base in order to confirm it, if the warrant is on file in the computer system, it WILL show up and it is likely that they will call the police.

When looking for an easy-to-use, streamlined system for receiving, filing and serving warrants, Kentucky turned to Open Portal Solution's NE Warrants program. Like all states, they had faced years of time-intensive process prone to redundancies and inaccuracies.

Known as E-Warrants in Kentucky, the program is a robust electronic forms application for the judicial system. Requests for warrants, summons can be submitted electronically. Because E-Warrants is a web based program, judges can use it to review and approve requests on their laptops or PDAs at their convenience. Once a request has been approved, E-Warrants sends out notification to all law enforcement agencies in the state. (The information is also linked to the NCIC.) All warrants are available to agencies instantaneously.

Kentucky public safety officials have been very pleased with this system because it has greatly increased the number of warrants that are actually served, instead of sitting in files. In addition to keeping up with current-day warrants, they have been able to serve 30% of their back filed warrants.

In Kentucky, more than 82% of the Criminal Complaints that become Warrants of Arrest are being served-and the offender is arrested-using the the OPS E-Warrants application. Prior to E-Warrants, it was estimated that less than 6% of the warrants were served.

There is generally no statute of limitations on failing to appear in court. They court will not extradite for minor offences like traffic tickets but will for major felony cases. However if you have a warrant and get stopped by police, they will arrest you and you will be in more trouble than these minor cases cause to begin with. You may plea that case to a judge but then you are gambling on what he will rule.

charged on a revocation warrant

British soldiers were given writs of assistance that allowed them to conduct searches. This angered many colonists who argued the writs violated their rights.