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Florida Statute 941.02 - Full Text and Legal Analysis Florida Statute 941.02 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research
Fla. Stat. § 941.02 (2026) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Amendments
941.02 Fugitives from justice; duty of Governor.Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the provisions of the Constitution of the United States controlling, and any and all Acts of Congress enacted in pursuance thereof, it is the duty of the Governor of this state to have arrested and delivered up to the executive authority of any other state of the United States any person charged in that state with treason, felony, or other crime, who has fled from justice and is found in this state.
History.s. 2, ch. 20460, 1941.

Arrestable Offenses under F.S. 941.02

M = misdemeanor · F = felony · degree: F=1st S=2nd T=3rd
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Cases Citing F.S. 941.02

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·State v. Ducharme, 881 So. 2d 70 (Fla. 5th DCA 2004).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2004 WL 1856023

...st remain in a secure facility and shall not be released. [4] The authority to extradite fugitives from justice emanates from Article IV, Section 2, United States Constitution, and only applies to those charged with "treason, felony or other crime." § 941.02, Fla....
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Cited as authorityEvans (2013)
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Cited as authorityMoore (2005)
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Review denied(citing case) (2005)
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·Fauls v. Sheriff of Leon Cnty., 394 So. 2d 117 (Fla. 1981).

Cited 3 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...Florida adopted the Uniform Interstate Extradition Act in 1941. Codified as chapter 941, it directs the governor, upon proper demand, to have arrested and returned to the demanding state any person who is charged with a crime in another state, who has fled from justice, and who is found in this state. Section 941.02, Florida Statutes (1979)....
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Cited as authorityMoore (1981)
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Paley v. Bieluch, 785 So. 2d 692 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2001 WL 527495

...ia; Petitioner refused to waive extradition. It is without dispute that on August 23, 2000, Petitioner began to be held without bond in Collier County as an out-of-state fugitive from justice on a Georgia warrant issued January 14, 1999, pursuant to section 941.02, Florida Statutes, for possible extradition....
...Heidtman, 284 So.2d 473 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973) (granting petition for writ of habeas corpus sought against sheriff by prisoner being held for extradition, where prisoner was being held for his second successive recommitment following original commitment). Section 941.02 makes it the duty of the governor of this state to arrest and deliver to the executive authority of any other state a person charged with a crime in that state who flees from justice in that state and is found in this state....
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·Josey v. Galloway, 482 So. 2d 376 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 10 Fla. L. Weekly 2238

...deral statute, 18 U.S.C.A. § 3182. Roberts v. Reilly, 116 U.S. 80, 94, 6 S.Ct. 291, 299, 29 L.Ed. 544 (1885). To implement this federal law, the state of Florida has adopted the Uniform Interstate Extradition Act. Ch. 941, pt. 1, Fla. Stat. (1983). Section 941.02 directs the governor of Florida "to have arrested and delivered up" to another state "any person charged in that state with treason, felony, or other crime, who has fled from justice and is found in this state." The power of the judici...
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Cited as authorityGalloway (1987)
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Abbott v. Genung, 238 So. 2d 135 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1970).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1970 Fla. App. LEXIS 5912

...dition of one it desires to try if he is incarcerated in another jurisdiction. It was Abbott’s right to be speedily tried in California and California’s right speedily to try him. Our Governors properly cooperated, as the Uniform Act requires in Section 941.02, toward this end....
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France v. Judd, 932 So. 2d 1263 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2006 WL 1933388

...[2] The Act facilitates provisions of the United States Constitution and federal implementing legislation that provide for the extradition of fugitives from state to state, upon one governor's demand to another. U.S. Const., art. IV, § 2, cl. 2; 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 3182, 3194, and 3195; § 941.02, Fla....
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Brown v. Purdy, 222 So. 2d 239 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1969).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1969 Fla. App. LEXIS 5785

...fugitive from justice in the State of Florida. In other words, he claims as a matter of law that a convicted felon who escapes from confinement may not be considered a fugitive from justice in the absence of a pending charge. He relies on Fla.Stat. § 941.02, F.S.A....

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