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    MichelleP1 Posts: 2, Reputation: 1
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    Feb 24, 2009, 10:07 PM
    Father wants to leave state/flee rather than go to court & risk jail on misdemeanor
    My father (65ish) has been accused of sexual harassment--after retiring from 30 years of teaching, he was substitute teaching & a teen at the school lodged a complaint against him & it's going to court. His lawyer says he has a 50/50 chance of going to jail for a year. (This was all what I was told by him, not sure if he was telling the truth).

    He has decided that he'd rather leave the state (California) and move to Arizona, assuming that if he doesn't enter the state again, he won't be found. Is this true? I would think with the technology we have today that it would be easy enough to figure it out and arrest someone in another state, but I suppose if it's not federal & he never re-enters the state he can't be extradited? I am, of course, very concerned with this decision.

    PLEASE ADVISE!
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    Feb 25, 2009, 05:58 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by MichelleP1 View Post
    He has decided that he'd rather leave the state (California) and move to Arizona, assuming that if he doesn't enter the state again, he won't be found. Is this true?!
    Hello Michelle:

    If your father NEVER opens a bank account, and NEVER gets stopped driving his car, and NEVER tries to get a drivers license or insurance, then he MIGHT not ever be found...

    If he is, he'll be extradited. States DO work together on that stuff. I have no idea where you got that they don't.

    In other words if he wants to live underground, he might be OK. But, if he's going to live underground, why doesn't he do that in California?

    excon
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    Feb 25, 2009, 07:14 AM

    Of course they can extradite him for a misdemeanor, and the warrant for his arrest will be nationwide. If he was in Georgia or Fla they may not pay to bring him back, but from Arizona, that is right next to CA, they can just send a police car overnight and get him.

    But yes, as long as he does not have a bank account, does not want to ever renew his drivers license, does not get his retirement check mailed to him. Then he only has to worry about being stopped by the local police where he is living for some other issue.
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    Feb 25, 2009, 10:35 AM

    Thank you so much for responding!

    I'm having dinner with him on Thursday and I'll let him know this information.

    (Excon, I figured states worked together, it's my father who thought that they didn't).

    THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH!!
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