Anderson, SC asked in Criminal Law for South Carolina

Q: Help I'm confused

My fiance got arrest a week ago for a failure to appear for 2011 but he did time and even got a public defender and released on bond but when you look in the public index it only shows up a charge that happened in 2005 but got dismissed. I don't understand why there was a warrant for a failure to appear

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Ryan D Templeton
Ryan D Templeton
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  • Criminal Law Lawyer
  • Summerville, SC
  • Licensed in South Carolina

A: When someone does not show up for court a bench warrant is issued and the case is administratively removed from the docket and may be listed as dismissed or FTA(failure to appear). All this means is the case is removed from the docket of active cases until the person is picked up on the bench warrant. Without more information that is all I could tell you.

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