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                               CrRLJ 2.5
            PROCEDURE ON FAILURE TO OBEY CITATION AND NOTICE


    The court may order the issuance of a bench warrant for the arrest
of any defendant who has failed to appear before the court, either in
person or by a lawyer, in answer to a citation and notice, or an order
of the court, upon which the defendant has promised in writing to
appear, or of which the defendant has been served with otherwise
received notice to appear, if the sentence for the offense charged may
include confinement in jail.


[Amended effective September 1, 1991; November 21, 2006.]
	

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