N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law § 570.34 : Procedures For Securing Attendance At Criminal Actions And Proceedings Of Defendants Not Securable By Conventional Means-And Related Matters — Criminal Procedure — Securing Attendance Of Defendants Who Are Outside The State But Within The United States-Rendition To Other Jurisdictions Of Defendants — Arrest of accused without warrant therefor

Current through 2016 New York Laws, Chapters 1 to 237

The arrest of a person in this state may be lawfully made also by any police officer or a private person, without a warrant, upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged in the courts of another state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year; but when so arrested the accused must be taken before a local criminal court with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in the preceding section; and, thereafter, his answers shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.