Many people seem to not understand that even though a police officer issues you a ticket for a criminal charge, usually for a relatively minor misdemeanor, that ticket is also a summons requiring them to appear in court and respond to the charges. Probably the most common source of OFA's is the failure of criminal defendants to appear in court on their court date. Arrests of this nature have a tendency to come at extremely inconvenient times (when is it ever convenient to be hauled off to jail?).Īn Order for Arrest is typically the result of a judicial determination that the subject has in some way defied a lawful court order, such as a summons. If either one has been issued it should immediately become the person's most urgent priority. Either an OFA or a Warrant for Arrest authorizes a law enforcement official to arrest you on sight wherever they may find you. These two situations are if the person has a Warrant for Arrest or an Order for Arrest. Under North Carolina law, there are two situations where a law enforcement officer can arrest a person without developing any sort of suspicion or probable cause to believe that person committed a crime. There is never a good time to be arrested on an outstanding warrant

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