In a message dated 5/14/2002 7:00:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jaxone1234@msn.com writes: > The police can put you in their jail for 72 hours and never even file any > charges. > That is the federal standard, you must be (scheduled) for arraignment within seventy-two hours of arrest, (someplaces don't count weekends and holidays, so this could stretch to six days if arrested on a friday preceding a holiday weekend.) Sometime during that first period you have to have a hearing and be officially charged. Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG, (http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com) ~~ Coordinator, C h u r c h i l l Nevada U S G e n W e b Site Co-Coordinator, Inmontgo-L, Montgomery County, Indiana, U S G e n W e b Site manager of the following Rootsweb Lists: B l a c k s h e e p, L a n d e s, L a n d i s, P e f f l e y, S c i s m, E n d i c o t t, S h i p w r e c k, Inmontgo (Mont. Co. Indiana), NVChurch (Churchill Co. Nv.)