Jefferson County Warrant Attorney

A bench or arrest warrant is an order from a court to a law enforcement agency directing that the subject of the warrant be brought before the court. Warrants may be issued in Missouri for any number of reasons including failure to pay fines, failure to appear for court, or upon the filing of new criminal charges. Many bench warrants can be handled by an attorney simply asking the court for a Warrant Recall. Often, when the court is aware that you have hired an attorney, it will immediately recall the warrant and instead issue a court date.

Probation violation warrants are issued in cases where the judge has placed an individual on probation with specific conditions and the person has failed to satisfy those conditions. Probation violation warrants are typically issued with a “no bond” provision which means you will either have to sit in jail until there is a court date available, or you will need to hire an attorney to see the judge in order to get a bond set in your case.

When you are charged with a felony there will be no warning and no court date to miss. When a felony is filed, a warrant is automatically issued with the filing of the charges. There will likely be a bond set, however it may be more than you can afford to pay, in which case you should immediately contact an attorney to have the bond amount reduced. Please keep in mind that on a felony case charges can and often are filed months or even years after the incident allegedly occurred. If you have been arrested for a felony, contact us immediately at (636) 638-2150 so that we may place you case on our checklist so that you are not caught off guard by the filing of felony charges.

If you have warrants in several different courts you will want to hire a lawyer as soon as possible. If you are arrested for one of those warrants, as soon as you pay your bond in the first court, you will simply be sent to jail in the next jurisdiction that has issued a warrant for your arrest. To be released from jail in the second court and get a new court date, you will have to pay a separate bond. An attorney will likely be able to get your warrant cancelled before you leave one jail and are transported to the next.

A writ of bodily attachment is a court order directing the sheriff or any other law enforcement officer to physically bring a person before the court. This could result from an individual’s failure to comply with a subpoena or because the court has found them in contempt. Body attachments are common in child support cases where there is a large arrearage. On these cases the amount of the bond is usually set at the amount of past due child support that is owing. In these types of cases we attempt to get the amount of the bond lowered along with some type of agreement to pay the child support arrearage.

If you receive a ticket and fail to either resolve it or appear in court, the court may issue a FTA (Failure to Appear) charge against you and/or a warrant for your arrest. Also, many times a municipal court will report your failure to appear to the Missouri Department of Revenue (DOR) who will in turn suspend your driver’s license. If this happens, the only way to get your license reinstated is to resolve the underlying charges. After you have done so, the court will then send notice of compliance to the DOR. This may seem like a daunting process however we have extensive experience with quickly resolving failure to appear warrant and the problems associated with them.