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Old Jan 6, 2014, 5:12 am
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Originally Posted by Often1
1. Do not take your legal advice from anonymous websites.

2. Get a new attorney.

3. Do not communicate with the prosecutor's office or any other agency of government other than through your attorney. See #2.

4. Not everything is explained away just because you say something from however many thousand miles away.
Agreed.
Originally Posted by Often1
5. An active warrant for your arrest will almost certainly cause you to be excluded from the US. It may also cause you to be excluded from other countries which share data with the US. It will also likely cause you to be taken into custody at least temporarily.
Not sure about the exclusion bit, but certainly when your passport is run on arrival you are likely, at the very least, to get put in secondary for a while, and possibly detained until the NM authorities decide whether they want to pay for you to be hauled over there.
Originally Posted by Often1
In short, it's important to get this cleaned up promptly, but correctly.
Also agreed.
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