arrested then charged

[ESU]

How long does a police officer typically have to charge you with a crime once you have been arrested?

[mcsap]

We charge you with a crime WHEN you are arrested.

Except DUI, in which we wait for the BAC to come back.

[Lfpdlieu302]

just like mcsap stated, once you are arrested you are charged. now i guess you could say that formal charges happen when they are filed by the prosecuting attorney in court, but for all practical purposes you are charged when arrested.

[EXCOP2000]

In the dept I worked for, misdemeanor citations were immediate charges once you turned them in to be processed. If you had probable cause and you made a custodial arrest you had to take the suspect before a "night court" commissioner and try and get the arrest warrant signed which was usually done. Only in rare cases did the commissioner tell me I didn't have enough to get a certain arrest warrant...(usually lesser included charges). I can't remember every having to let someone walk after I arrested them and took them in...although it may have happened.

[Oldbillplod]

In the UK you can hold someone for 24 hours before you have to charge them, if the crime is serious you can ask for 12 hour extensions.

[rdp]

Here, the DA must approve the charges. You are arrested and a court date is set. That is when the official charges are filed.

For any misdemeanor crime, we have one year to charge the person from the date of the offense. Gross misdemeanors and felonies do vary.

[Jynkxxie]

I thought that this was just the accusatory stage...not the adversary stage...