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  2. Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Wikipedia

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    The Code of Criminal Procedure, [1] sometimes called the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1965 [2] or the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1965, [3] is an Act of the Texas State Legislature. The Act is a code of the law of criminal procedure of Texas. The code regulates how criminal trials are carried out in Texas.

  3. Law enforcement officer - Wikipedia

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    Texas Statutes, [13] Code of Criminal Procedure, Art. 2.12, provides: Art. 2.12, WHO ARE PEACE OFFICERS. The following are peace officers: (1) sheriffs, their deputies, and those reserve deputies who hold a permanent peace officer license issued under Chapter 1701, Occupations Code;

  4. Justice of the peace - Wikipedia

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    Sections 22, 22-A and 22-B of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code, 1898 provide for the appointment of justices of the peace by the provincial governments, their powers and duties respectively. However, seldom are justices of the peace appointed in Pakistan outside the judiciary.

  5. Citizen's arrest - Wikipedia

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    Under section 66(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code, a citizen's arrest may be performed under two conditions: that the offense must have been committed in the view or presence of the individual making the arrest, and that the offense must be an arrestable and non-bailable offense (an offense for which a police officer may make an arrest without ...

  6. Right to silence - Wikipedia

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    Sections 83 and 84 of the Thai Code of Criminal Procedure, which have been amended by the Act Amending the Criminal Procedure Code (No. 22), BE 2547 (2004), require the police officers who conduct the arrests to inform the arrestees of their right against self-incrimination. Paragraph two of section 83 reads: [61]

  7. Expungement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Under New York Criminal Procedure § 160.59, subject to exceptions for sex offenses, Class A felonies and violent felonies, following a ten-year waiting period that begins on the later of a defendant's date of conviction or release from prison, courts have discretion to seal up to two convictions, only one of which may be a felony.

  8. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Wikipedia

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    The Field Code, which was adopted between 1848 and 1850, was an intermediate step between common law and modern rules, created by New York attorney David Dudley Field. The Field Code was partially inspired by civil law systems in Europe and Louisiana, and among other reforms, merged law and equity proceedings. [3]

  9. List of punishments for murder in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Maximum of 204 months (sentence without criminal record is 38 to 80 months) Second Degree Murder (inherently dangerous act or by unlawful distribution of certain illicit substances) Maximum of 484 months (sentence without criminal record is 94 to 196 months)