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Fla. Stat. § 941.14 (2025)
Arrest without a warrant.
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941.14 Arrest without a warrant.—The arrest of a person may be lawfully made also by any peace officer or a private person, without a warrant upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged in the courts of a state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding 1 year, but when so arrested the accused must be taken before a judge with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against the accused under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in the preceding section; and thereafter his or her answer shall be heard as if the accused had been arrested on a warrant.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 11
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1972–2025 · leading case: Lewis v. Boone, 418 So. 2d 319 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982).
Lewis v. Boone, 418 So. 2d 319 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982). “The appellant/petitioner appeals the circuit court's denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus asserting detention in violation of § 941.14 et seq., Florida Statutes. [1] We affirm.”
Murphy v. Boehm, 443 So. 2d 363 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983). “The complaint in support of his arrest, as required by Fla. Stat. § 941.14 , stated that Martin County had received credible information from the State of Ohio that Paul Lawrence Boehm had allegedly committed the crimes of escape and felony theft under the laws of that state and…”
Signature Pharmacy, Inc. v. Soares, 717 F. Supp. 2d 1276 (M.D. Fla. 2010). “Here, Plaintiffs were arrested pursuant to Fla. Stat. § 941.14 on the basis of supposed New York arrest warrants.”
Signature Pharmacy, Inc. v. P. Soares, 448 F. App'x 917 (11th Cir. 2011). “” Soares and Baynes neglected to bring the New York warrants for the arrest of the Appellees with them when they traveled from New York to Florida to participate in the raids.”
State v. Roberts, 427 So. 2d 787 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983). “1st DCA 1982) (holding that the state's substantial compliance with the Uniform Interstate Extradition Act, section 941.14, et seq., Florida Statutes (1981), validated a two-day late Governor's extradition warrant).”
Johnson v. Heinrich, 543 So. 2d 831 (Fla. 2d DCA 1989). “Count I was against Heinrich for unlawful arrest based on section 941.14, Florida Statutes (1987) and the Florida and federal constitutions.”
France v. Judd, 932 So. 2d 1263 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006). “Warrantless pre-requisition arrests are permitted by section 941.14, provided that three elements are satisfied.”
Bishop v. City of Clearwater, 258 So. 2d 337 (Fla. 2d DCA 1972). “Florida Statutes, Section 941.14, F.S.A. provides: “Arrest without a warrant.”
Annicaro v. State, 375 So. 2d 860 (Fla. 4th DCA 1979). “Furthermore, the state seeks to rely upon Section 941.14, Florida Statutes (1977), to justify the initial arrest.”
Raulerson v. State of Florida (Fla. 1st DCA 2025). “In fact, the Legislature specifies—by my count—only three other situations (beside the property owner’s preventing armed trespass) in which a private person can detain or arrest independent of his employment: warrantless arrest by a “private person” upon “reasonable information”…”
York v. King (E.D.N.Y 2025). “) Orange County Deputy Sheriff Wilbens Marcellon attested that Petitioner was arrested and booked as an out-of-state “Fugitive from Justice” pursuant to Fla. Stat. § 941.14 . (Arrest Aff., Dkt. 8-2, at ECF 2.”
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