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1905 mugshot of communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky Mugshot of American gangster Al Capone. A mug shot or mugshot (an informal term for police photograph or booking photograph) is a photographic portrait of a person from the shoulders up, typically taken after a person is placed under arrest.
Pre-trial detention, also known as jail, preventive detention, provisional detention, or remand, is the process of detaining a person until their trial after they have been arrested and charged with an offence. A person who is on remand is held in a prison or detention centre or held under house arrest.
American socialist activist Lucy Parsons after her arrest for rioting during an unemployment protest at Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, 1915. The word "arrest" is Anglo-Norman in origin, derived from the French word arrêt meaning 'to stop or stay' and signifies a restraint of a person. Lexicologically, the meaning of the word arrest is given ...
Many circuit courts have said that law enforcement can hold your property for as long as they want. D.C.’s high court decided last week that’s unconstitutional.
Constitution Of Criminal Courts And Offices Chapter 3 Clauses 21 to 29 Power Of Courts Chapter 4 Clauses 30 to 34 Powers Of Superior Officers Of Police And Aid To The Magistrates And The Police Chapter 5 Clauses 35 to 62 Arrest Of Persons Chapter 6 Clauses 63 to 93 Processes To Compel Appearance Summons (63 to 71) Warrant Of Arrest (72 to 83)
In most countries, a search warrant cannot be issued in aid of civil process. Jurisdictions that respect the rule of law and a right to privacy constrain police powers, and typically require search warrants or an equivalent procedure for searches police conducted in the course of a criminal investigation .
Preventive detention is an imprisonment that is putatively justified for non-punitive purposes, most often to prevent further criminal acts.. Preventive detention sometimes involves the detention of a convicted criminal who has served their sentence but is considered too dangerous to release.
In the Nigerian Criminal Code, the same offence is covered by article 419, which has now lent its name to the advance fee fraud. [6] The title of two popular Hindi films – Chachi 420 (in English: Trickster Aunt, a 1997 remake of Mrs. Doubtfire) and Shri 420 (in English: Mr. 420, a 1955 film) – are direct references to Section 420 of the IPC.