{"id":1109,"date":"2012-01-10T03:05:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T03:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/notice-appear-court-vs-arrest\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T20:48:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:48:42","slug":"notice-appear-court-vs-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/notice-appear-court-vs-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice to Appear in Court vs. Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flockoflegals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SKA-e1308269381480.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-203\" title=\"SKA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flockoflegals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SKA-e1308269381480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a>Did you know that\u00a0 you can ask an arresting police officer for an NOA (Notice to  appear in court) instead of being arrested?<\/p>\n<p>An NOA is a citation that  requires you to appear in court. Once there, you can be convicted and  sentenced to jail by the judge.<\/p>\n<p>BUT, there is one crucial difference: You  are not arrested prior to appearing in court. Thus if the judge  dismisses the case, seals the records or withholds adjudication (usually  the case on the first offense), you do not have an arrest record!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>:  Police in most states have wide discretion as to whether they make an  arrest or issue an NOA for a misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions regarding Notice&#8217;s to Appear contact the Law Office of Sherrie K. Albin (213) 746-4747<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that\u00a0 you can ask an arresting police officer for an NOA (Notice to appear in court) instead of being arrested? An NOA is a citation that requires you to appear in court. Once there, you can be convicted and sentenced to jail by the judge. BUT, there is one crucial difference: You&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-criminal-law-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5634,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/5634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}