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Failure to Appear in Court in DC and a warrant was issued what to do
Transcript
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Mark Rollins, I’m an
attorney here in Washington, D.C. I practice at the Law Firm of Rollins and
Chan. Today we’re going to be discussing failure to appear in court and
having an outstanding bench warrant.
Now, a bench warrant can be issued for one of two reasons. You could either
have a pretrial bench warrant or a probation bench warrant that’s been
issued. Now, if it’s a pretrial that means three things could have happened
to issue a pretrial bench warrant.
One is that you failed to appear after you were pulled over by the police
and you agreed to sign a notice with that police officer, and you’ve given
him notice that you will appear in court on a certain day. Then you fail to
appear. A warrant can be issued for that situation.
The second reason is that you failed to appear after you appeared in court,
but then the court told you that there’s going to be another court
appearance and you failed to appear for that court appearance. A bench
warrant can be issued in that situation.
Then, lastly, on a pretrial, a bench warrant could be issued if you were on
pretrial and you violated conditions of your release. The court typically
sends notice to you that they’re going to have a hearing on your violation
of conditions of release, and then you failed to appear at that hearing.
Again, in that situation, a bench warrant has been issued.
Now, if your bench warrant was issued for probation, what typically happens
in a probation bench warrant is that you failed to appear. After the
probation officer has sent notice to the court, they set a hearing down,
and you failed to appear for that hearing. So the judge, the court issued a
bench warrant for you for failure to appear at that hearing.
Now, what to do if you have an outstanding warrant? Well, the first thing
you want to do is you want to contact a criminal lawyer. A criminal lawyer
can do one of two things. They can file a motion with the court to quash or
recall the warrant, and they will follow that in paper and send it through
the normal process.
Or, the lawyer can simply walk you into the courthouse, walk you to the
judge and pretrial services who issued the warrant, and they’ll walk you
right into that courtroom for the judge who issued that warrant. Now,
that’s typically only done on pretrial warrants, not on probation warrants.
But either way, that lawyer can help you and assist you get through this
problem. So I hope that helps, and stay tuned and stay in contact with our
channel. Thanks for watching.
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