If I missed my court date for communicating threats, what doI do?
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If I missed my court date for communicating threats, what doI do?
It was last week I wrote the wrong date down.
Asked on December 5, 2011 under Criminal Law, North Carolina
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Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If you missed your court date fir a criminal matter, most likely the court issued a bench warrant for your arrest. In order to resolve the situation, I suggest that you go to the criminal clerk's office and see if the court clerk can set a new date for your hearing based upon your excuse that you wrote down the hearing date incorrectly. Possibly the court clerk by setting your matter back on calendar can assist you in not having to wait before you are arrested on any outstanding bench warrant before a new hearing date is set.
In the interim, I suggest that you retain a criminal defense attorney to represent you in your matter before things get worse for you.
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