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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS

Chapter 941
CORRECTIONS: INTERSTATE COOPERATION

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F.S. 941.15

941.15 Commitment to await requisition; bail.—If from the examination before the judge it appears that the person held is the person charged with having committed the crime alleged and, except in cases arising under s. 941.06, that the person has fled from justice, the judge must, by a warrant reciting the accusation, commit the person to the county jail for such a time not exceeding 30 days and specified in the warrant as will enable the arrest of the accused to be made under a warrant of the Governor on a requisition of the executive authority of the state having jurisdiction of the offense, unless the accused gives bail as provided in s. 941.16, or until the accused shall be legally discharged.

History.—s. 15, ch. 20460, 1941; s. 7, ch. 22858, 1945; s. 1606, ch. 97-102; s. 46, ch. 2004-11.

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Amendments to 941.15

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 941.15

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 941.15.

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Cases Citing Statute 941.15

Total Results: 11

Basulto Vargas v. Junior

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2018-08-29T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: hold a fugitive in custody without bail. See §§ 941.15-.16, Fla. Stat. (2018). This discretion, however…limits have not yet expired. According to section 941.15, while a fugitive awaits requisition, “the judge…. . . .” The relevant exception within section 941.15 is “unless the accused gives bail as provided … uses the term “may.” After the section 941.15 time limit of 30 days expires, section 941.17 allows

France v. Judd

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2006-07-14T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 932 So. 2d 1263

Snippet: procedures outlined in sections 941.13, 941.14, and 941.15, Florida Statutes (2005), were not properly followed… pursuant to a fugitive warrant or not, section 941.15 requires the judge to perform an examination to…she had fled from justice, as mandated by section 941.15. Nor did the judge issue the requisite warrant …Having failed to honor the requirements of section 941.15, the judge was not authorized to order France detained…noncompliance with sections 941.13, 941.14, and 941.15. For that reason, we granted France's petition

Burkhart v. Jenne

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2001-09-28T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 814 So. 2d 1064

Snippet: extradition by the Governor of this state. See § 941.15, Fla. Stat. (2000). The circuit court has discretion

Paley v. Bieluch

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2001-05-16T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 785 So. 2d 692

Snippet: offense, or allow the person to give bail. See § 941.15. Section 941.17 allows for an extension of the

Carter v. Coleman

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1984-01-13T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 443 So. 2d 491

Snippet: under a warrant of the Governor of Florida. §§ 941.15, 941.16, Fla.Stat. (1981). Because no Governor’… arrest under a Governor’s warrant. §§ 941.-13, 941.15, 941.16, 941.17, Fla.Stat. (1981); see also Treadway

Murphy v. Boehm

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1983-12-28T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 443 So. 2d 363

Snippet: the governor's warrant had expired. See §§ 941.15 and 941.17, Florida Statutes (1981). Without an

Lewis v. Boone

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1982-07-29T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 418 So. 2d 319

Snippet: because he was held beyond the thirty-day limit in § 941.15, and was not recommitted under § 941.17, he was

State v. Fulkerson

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1974-03-06T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 300 So. 2d 276

Snippet: theft in the State of Virginia. Pursuant to F.S. 941.15, F.S.A., Judge Seaver determined that Fulkerson…of thirty days confinement provided for in F.S. 941.15, F.S.A., and that no extension of confinement had

Treadway v. Heidtman

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1973-11-02T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 284 So. 2d 473

Snippet: thirty (30) days as provided in, F.S., Section 941.15, F.S.A. Upon completion of this period of thirty

Tomarchin v. Kelly

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1960-03-23T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 118 So. 2d 788

Snippet: provisions of the Uniform Interstate Extradition Law (§§ 941.15, 941.16, Fla.Stat., F.S.A.), which appear to limit

Kirkland v. State

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1923-06-20T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 86 Fla. 64

Snippet: Section 1475, Revised General Statutes; 7 R. C. L. 941; 15 C. J. 460; Martin v. Townsend, 32 Fla. 318, 13