Rights During Arrest
This document is an excerpted from An Introduction to Law in Georgia, Fourth Edition, published by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, 1998 (updated 2004). This document discusses your Constitutional rights when you are arrested by the police, including: (1) What the police officers must do to get an arrest warrant, (2) Arrests that may be made when the police do not have a warrant, (3) Citizens' arrests, and (4) Your right to have the
police tell you what your rights are when you are arrested ( the "Miranda Warnings").
By: Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia
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