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Recent Examples of capiasWhile traditional arrest warrants require an ascertainment that there is evidence a crime may have been committed, Peterson's capias warrant stems from his failure to appear in court over the issues.—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024 She was arrested and jailed on a civil order called a capias for repeatedly refusing Moukawsher’s orders requiring her to cooperate with a trustee appointed to close her law practice and prohibiting her from withdrawing money from a client account.—Hartford Courant, 6 June 2022 Videos of three days worth of court proceedings obtained by cleveland.com and accompanying court records confirm that Carr issued multiple capiases -- the legal term for an arrest warrant -- and placed arrest bonds on several of them.—Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2020 The Sheriff’s Office, which runs the jail, faulted the clerk for failing to provide a capias.—Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 19 June 2019 He was also booked on four court capias warrants, generally issued for failure to appear in court.—Diana Samuels, NOLA.com, 5 Jan. 2018
Brown was served with an arrest warrant for murder after being discharged from the hospital following treatment for non-life-threatening injuries sustained at the time of the incident.
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Jenna Sundel
Andrew Stanton
Jason Lemon,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
Typically, a warrant is directed at a person or a group suspected of having committed a specific crime.
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