Current through Chapter 61 of the 2024 Legislative Session and 2024 Executive Orders 125, 133 through 135
Section 26.05.400 - Restraint of persons charged with offenses(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, a person charged with an offense under this chapter may be arrested or confined as circumstances may require. A person arrested or confined before trial is entitled to prompt notice of the offense of which the person is accused.(b) A person subject to the code of military justice who is charged with a minor offense normally tried by a summary court-martial or subject to nonjudicial punishment under the code of military justice may not be placed in confinement.(c) When a person subject to the code of military justice is placed in confinement before summary court-martial or nonjudicial punishment, the person shall be conditionally released pending disposition of the charges.Added by SLA 2016, ch. 55,sec. 4, eff. 7/1/2016.This section was originally numbered as 26.05.425 but was changed by the revisor of statutes.