South Carolina Code 23-15-45. Service of arrest warrants on incarcerated inmates; statewide jurisdiction
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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 23-15-45
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
A sheriff is invested with statewide territorial jurisdiction to serve upon an inmate incarcerated at a state correctional institution or local detention facility an arrest warrant issued by a magistrate of a county who has been granted, by written order of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, statewide territorial jurisdiction to dispose of qualified criminal cases.