Going Back to the Well, er, Magistrate
Published for NC Criminal Law on February 02, 2010.
I’ve been asked several times recently whether an officer who asks a magistrate to issue an arrest warrant and is turned down based on a lack of probable cause can simply go to another magistrate and ask the other magistrate to issue the warrant. The answer is yes. There’s no double jeopardy problem because jeopardy ... Read more
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