The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS

Chapter 942
INTERSTATE EXTRADITION OF WITNESSES

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F.S. 942.04

942.04 Exemption from arrest and service of process.—

(1) If a person comes into this state in obedience to a summons directing him or her to attend and testify in this state, the person shall not while in this state pursuant to such summons be subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before his or her entrance into this state under the summons.

(2) If a person passes through this state while going to another state in obedience to a summons to attend and testify in that state, or while returning therefrom, the person shall not while so passing through this state be subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before his or her entrance into this state under the summons.

History.—s. 4, ch. 20458, 1941; s. 1627, ch. 97-102.

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Amendments to 942.04

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 942.04

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 942.04.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

STATE OF FLORIDA v. FREEMAN, 36 Fla. Supp. 2d 114 (Fla. Cir. Ct. 1989)

. . . F.S. 942.04(1). . . .

HEART OF ATLANTA MOTEL, INC. v. UNITED STATES, 379 U.S. 241 (U.S. 1964)

. . . Ann., § 942.04 (1958); Wyo. Stat. Ann., §§6-83.1 and 6-83.2 (1963 Supp.). . . .

In O NEILL, 9 Fla. Supp. 153 (Dade Cty. Cir. Ct. 1956)

. . . , in the only case (In re Allen, supra) in which the constitutionality of subsection (3) of section 942.04 . . . Perhaps the most serious objection to the constitutionality of the “uniform law” (sections 942.01 to 942.04 . . .