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Therunaway · Oct 12, 2012, 10:38 PM

A friend of mine had to go to court last year for failing to attend school (she was sixteen, and it had to do with Washington states becca bill). After going to court, she simply had to sign a paper saying she would go to school from now on.
But she failed to comply. She didn't go to school the beginning of the next year and now there is another court date set because of it and it states that if she fails to attend court, there will be a warrant out for her arrest. She's seventeen now, and she plans on fleeing to the east coast. My questions are
1. Is there any way she would be actively searched for in a state on the east coast because of her warrant from the west coast state of Washington? And found what would happen?
2. Is there anyway (if she is not actively searched for) she could do something to accidentally bring up the fact that she has a warrant in such a far away state, and if it was brought up, would she be arrested?
3. If one of the two above does happen, will the person she is staying with be arrested?
4. And if the first two do not happen, will her warrant (which I feel is somewhat minor) go away when she turns 18 in a few months. And if it doesn't, will that warrant only still exist in the state of Washington?

Fr_Chuck · Oct 12, 2012, 10:47 PM

1. Is there any way she would be actively searched for in a state on the east coast because of her warrant from the west coast state of Washington? And found what would happen?

No, they will merely wait till she is found trying to get a drivers license, trying to fly somewhere, or even just stopped for a traffic check.

2. Is there anyway (if she is not actively searched for) she could do something to accidentally bring up the fact that she has a warrant in such a far away state, and if it was brought up, would she be arrested?

Any time she has any background check, for an apartment rental, for a job, for a DL, or stopped by the police for any reason, it will just show up in the national data base.

3. If one of the two above does happen, will the person she is staying with be arrested?

Most likely not but if the person knows they are wanted and have a warrant, the police could, Normally this is only done in very serious cases. If the person she is with, is on government welfare, it can void their welfare or get them evicted.

4. And if the first two do not happen, will her warrant (which I feel is somewhat minor) go away when she turns 18 in a few months. And if it doesn't, will that warrant only still exist in the state of Washington?

That warrant will exist nationally for ever, it will show up any and every time they do a background check on her for the rest of her life, ( until she satisfies it)

They need to just show up, take care of it, and not "run" running will only add and make it much much worst.

How about 10 years from now, chance for a great job, but nope, the warrant stops it.

10 years from now, on the way to see a person, great chance , but stopped and detained by the police,

Therunaway · Oct 12, 2012, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by Fr_Chuck

1. Is there any way she would be actively searched for in a state on the east coast because of her warrant from the west coast state of Washington? And found what would happen?

No, they will merely wait till she is found trying to get a drivers license, trying to fly somewhere, or even just stopped for a traffic check.

2. Is there anyway (if she is not actively searched for) she could do something to accidentally bring up the fact that she has a warrant in such a far away state, and if it was brought up, would she be arrested?

Any time she has any background check, for an apartment rental, for a job, for a DL, or stopped by the police for any reason, it will just show up in the national data base.

3. If one of the two above does happen, will the person she is staying with be arrested?

Most likely not but if the person knows they are wanted and have a warrant, the police could, Normally this is only done in very serious cases. If the person she is with, is on government welfare, it can void their welfare or get them evicted.

4. And if the first two do not happen, will her warrant (which I feel is somewhat minor) go away when she turns 18 in a few months. And if it doesnt, will that warrant only still exist in the state of washington?

That warrant will exist nationally for ever, it will show up any and every time they do a background check on her for the rest of her life, ( until she satisfies it)

They need to just show up, take care of it, and not "run" running will only add and make it much much worst.

How about 10 years from now, chance for a great job, but nope, the warrant stops it.

10 years from now, on the way to see a person, great chance , but stopped and detained by the police,

So if the warrant exists, and she did decide to wait until she's 18, is there any chance she could do something to get the warrant removed?

Therunaway · Oct 12, 2012, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by Therunaway

So if the warrant exists, and she did decide to wait until shes 18, is there any chance she could do something to get the warrant removed?

Adding onto that, if there wasn't a way to get the warrant removed, what would be the consequences. Could she be bailed out of any dentention time?

Therunaway · Oct 12, 2012, 11:08 PM

Seeing as juvenile warrants fail to disappear after you turn 18

(see the post https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/other-...re-708683.html {Threads merged}

Would their be any way to get the warrant dismissed by the court. And if not, what would be the consquences? If it were jail time, would there be bail to buy their way back out?

AK lawyer · Oct 13, 2012, 06:58 AM

Originally Posted by Therunaway

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Would their be any way to get the warrant dismissed by the court. And if not, what would be the consquences? If it were jail time, would there be bail to buy their way back out?

It is quite possible that if asked the court would dismiss the warrant.

As I undertand it, she is no longer subject to the truancy law that she supposedly violated, because she is older. If so, that would be a good reason to drop the charges.

But no, if she were convicted and sent to jail, bail would not then be an option.

Fr_Chuck · Oct 13, 2012, 07:09 AM

The issue is that the warrant will not be for the actual truancy, the warrant will be for the failure to appear. But then why not just appear and solve all future issues.

So many "ifs" latter they may hire an attorney to file, they then travel back, appear in court, pay a fine and get it dismissed.

Only issue, with a warrant, they won't get a good job to save money to do this.

Then also a judge may not like that fact they just took off and will push this to the max punishment.