What to do about an arrest warrant?
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What to do about an arrest warrant?
My son was issued a ticket for failure to have his driver’s license with him and also was cited for having a marijuana pipe in his vehicle. He went to court showed the prosecutor his license so that charge was dropped and he was given a $65 fine on the other charge. We went to pay the clerk and credit card processing system went down as we were attempting to pay so the clerk gave us a form so we could send in the payment. We mailed in the payment and it got there 1 day late. They returned the check with a note that the magistrate issued a re arrest with a $389 cash bond. Can we just go to court and explain our story and pay the fine and move on or is it more serious than that ?
Asked on May 25, 2013 under Criminal Law, Connecticut
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 10 years ago | Contributor
Given the circumstances that you have written about, your son needs to appear in court on the hearing date to explain to the court what happened and ask that the arrest warrant be cleared due to the fact that he tried to timely pay the fine but the court system failed precluding a credit card payment.
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