One of the possible topics that anyone could find in a comprehensive criminal background check on a potential offender is information related warrants. Warrants come in a variety of kinds according to jurisdiction and purpose, and depending on how thorough your search for this information is, you could miss one or more of these types of court orders for offenses in your findings. This said, we examine the more specific topic of county warrant court orders: what they are, how they are characterized by crime and jurisdiction, as well as how to best facilitate a criminal records search that doesn’t exclude them.
One of the important aspects that you may find in a criminal records search is the arrest records. In a person’s arrest history will be located warrants information-for which is the nature of this discussion. A warrant simply defined is a court order to be enacted by law enforcement for the arrest and any other activity in regards to a potential criminal-who is subject of the court order. This said, every jurisdiction of criminal law has a court that can order a court order for some action to be enacted. This said, county warrant orders are ordered from county courts and deal with the crimes that are processed in those particular courts.
One might wonder what exactly are the types of crimes that might be processed in a county court, prior to understanding how county warrants fit in with criminal law and the subject of your potential criminal records search. As each jurisdiction deals with different types of criminal cases, county courts share the same type of criminal cases as state courts. State courts typically process more severe of crimes i.e. felonies and gross misdemeanors as well as all appeals cases. So, in the case of county courts, they mostly process felonies and gross misdemeanors. This extends to the types of cases in which county court orders apply, which factors into the definition of the warrant.
Warrants come in a variety of kinds according to the purpose of a particular court order regarding the incident or crime in question, and just as important to what kind of incident has occurred to the nature of it being a county court order, is also what kind of court order it is. There are three main kinds of court orders that can be given at the county level: arrest, search, and bench court orders. While a court order can be given according to whatever purpose the court sees fit, these three are the most common. An arrest court order offers a member of law enforcement the ability to arrest a person for a crime that he/she is unauthorized to do on their own. A search warrant is authorized for not only the arrest of the subject of the court order, but also the search for applicable evidence within the subject’s property. Lastly, a bench warrant applies to anyone involved in a county court case who has shown some disrespect to the court, i.e. dressing sloppy or not showing up to court. While warrants are given in the same manner for all jurisdictions, penalties are typically more severe once arrested, for crimes at county, state, and district levels depending upon the nature and severity of the crime.