Terms Used In Maryland Code, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE 9-112

  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • County: means a county of the State or Baltimore City. See
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
  • Person: includes an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental entity. See
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) (1) The officer or person executing the Governor’s warrant of arrest or the agent of the demanding state to whom the prisoner may have been delivered may, when necessary, confine the prisoner in the correctional facility of any county or municipal corporation through which the officer, person, or agent may pass.

(2) The managing official of the correctional facility must receive and safely keep the prisoner until the officer, person, or agent having charge of the prisoner is ready to proceed.

(3) The officer, person, or agent is chargeable with the expense of keeping the prisoner.

(b) (1) The officer or agent of a demanding state to whom a prisoner may have been delivered following extradition proceedings in another state, or to whom a prisoner may have been delivered after waiving extradition in another state, and who is passing through this State with the prisoner for the purpose of immediately returning the prisoner to the demanding state may, when necessary, confine the prisoner in the correctional facility of any county or municipal corporation through which the officer or agent may pass.

(2) The managing official of the correctional facility must receive and safely keep the prisoner until the officer or agent having charge of the prisoner is ready to proceed.

(3) The officer or agent is chargeable with the expense of keeping the prisoner.

(4) The officer or agent shall produce and show to the managing official of the correctional facility satisfactory written evidence of the fact that the officer or agent is actually transporting the prisoner to the demanding state after a requisition by the executive authority of the demanding state.

(5) The prisoner is not entitled to demand a new requisition while in this State.