{UAH} STEPS FROM YOUR ARREST TO YOUR APPEAL IN CRIMINAL CASES

STEPS FROM YOUR ARREST TO YOUR APPEAL IN CRIMINAL CASES

         1. ARREST

  You can be arrested where reasonable grounds exist that you have committed an offence or are about to. A police Officer may use reasonable force. If you offer no violence, the Police Officer can not strike you. You will be taken to the police station. If the offence is not a serious one, the police can promptly bail you from the station.

          2. INTERVIEW

At the police station, you will be interviewed �under caution�. The purpose of the police interview is to give you an opportunity to answer the police version of events in a formal record that will be placed before the court.

 It is illegal for the police to torture you or use cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment such as threatening physical harm in order to make you confess to something you did not do. If you prefer, you can say nothing and state at the beginning of the interview: I do not want to say anything and wish to exercise my right to silence,

               3. COURT

From the police station, the police will take you to court as soon as they can but certainly not later than 48 hours (two days) unless there is a holiday in which case the next day.

 At court, they will charge you with the offence or request more time to keep you in custody in a police station or prison while they continue their investigations. This may be appropriate in serious and complicated cases but not in simple cases

            4. REMAND

At your first appearance in court, it is likely the case will be adjourned (i.e. put over to another date). In which case, the decision will need to be made whether you should be allowed out on bail or remanded in custody.

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