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The following circumstances are pertaining to Pennsylvania. I am facing charges and have a court date in March 2011. I was ordered to get fingerprinted at the County jail by a certain date in September. When I went to get fingerprinted the guard would not fingerprint me because I had no legal Identification. Now I have received a '2nd' notice and threatened with arrest if I don't get fingerprinted at this same location by a certain date. If I go to get fingerprinted and the guard once again refuses to fingerprint me because I don't have legal identification then is it not forcing me to have a government identification which I thought was not legal? Is this legal or is there just cause for me to demand that they fingerprint me or tell the magistrate of their refusal. No where on the fingerprint order does it say that I must provide legal identification and also I am sure if the threatened warrant is issued and I am arrested on the warrant there would not be a 'we can't arrest you or fingerprint you without legal identification.

Answer

If you are facing charges, you probably have waived

your right to not carry a government ID. That's my

guess, but I would talk to a lawyer.

If you are refusing to get the ID on principle,

consider whether it is worth going to jail over, I

suppose. Fill out one of the forms on this site and see

what a lawyer has to say, though. You might be able to

do something about this without putting your name in

the system (although if you are getting fingerprinted,

I'm not sure what you're trying to protect them from

knowing, as you'll be in the system from that point

forward anyway).

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Warrants do not expire and they do not have a time limit. An arrest warrant will remain active until you get arrested or you give yourself up. If you avoided going to court for a misdemeanor, you are still in trouble, and unfortunately you are now in more trouble than you likely would have been had you shown up in court. If you feel trapped then you will want to hire a bench warrant attorney who is affordable, experienced, and who knows how to deal with people, and you need this right away.

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