Forum: Story Ideas

He'd have a bit of hope if he escaped across US state lines, but SCOTUS has ruled that extradition is not discretionary, so if he's in custody, he's going back. That said, he could challenge extradition, which would give judges in State B a chance to review the warrant from State A.

If he's not in custody in State B, there is no requirement for State B to expend any resources to search for him and take him into custody.

This might have current application post-Dobbs where State B doesn't want to extradite to State A, so they simply expend zero resources looking for the person against whom the warrant is issued.

Note - this is state prosecution. Federal has an entirely different set of rules. In federal custody, he's likely screwed unless he can convince a federal judge to quash the warrant (not an easy thing to do).

NOTE: Not an attorney, just someone interested in the law. There are many nuances. Contact an attorney for actual advice. Mine is suspect. Automatically.

Okay let's say our hero had a supernatural type encounter with a pack of werewolves that have infiltrated the police force of some little no name town A which ends up in him escaping but the "werewolves" in question arrange it so that a bench warrant is issued for our hero to drag him back from Town B where the hero escapes to.

This goes way beyond what the police can do anyways.

Bench warrants and the like are done by the DA and judges, not the cops. And it also depends on what the bench warrant is for.

It has to be for something serious enough to be extradited for in the first place. I knew a guy in Alabama that one day got picked up on a bench warrant out of Mississippi. It was for a minor traffic ticket, but he sat his ass in jail for three days.

And Mississippi decided that it was not worth extraditing for that so the charge was cleared and he left the jail a few days later.

That would actually be the case in most misdemeanor charges, unless the locations were in adjoining counties. Because most things like this are not actually handled by local police, but by county sheriff departments and DA offices. Local police are rarely involved in them at all.