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18 U.S.C. § 3691 — Jury trial of criminal contempts
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Whenever a contempt charged shall consist in willful disobedience of any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of any district court of the United States by doing or omitting any act or thing in violation thereof, and the act or thing done or omitted also constitutes a criminal offense under any Act of Congress, or under the laws of any state in which it was done or omitted, the accused, upon demand therefor, shall be entitled to trial by a jury, which shall conform as near as may be to the practice in other criminal cases.
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Whenever a contempt charged shall consist in willful disobedience of any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of any district court of the United States by doing or omitting any act or thing in violation thereof, and the act or thing done or omitted also constitutes a criminal offense under any Act of Congress, or under the laws of any state in which it was done or omitted, the accused, upon demand therefor, shall be entitled to trial by a jury, which shall conform as near as may be to the practice in other criminal cases.
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Any person, corporation or association willfully disobeying any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of any district court of the United States, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review established by section 103 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ([50 U.S.C. 1803](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section1803&num=0&edition=prelim)), or any court of the District of Columbia, by doing any act or thing therein, or thereby forbidden, if the act or thing so done be of such character as to constitute also a criminal offense under any statute of the United States or under the laws of any State in which the act was committed, shall be prosecuted for such contempt as provided in [section 3691 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section3691&num=0&edition=prelim) and shall be punished by a fine under this title or imprisonment, or both.
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 3731
CHAPTER 233—CONTEMPTS
Sec.
3691.
Jury trial of criminal contempts.
3692.
Jury trial for contempt in labor dispute
cases.
3693.
Summary disposition or jury trial; notice—
Rule.
§ 3691. Jury trial of criminal contempts
Whenever a contempt charged shall consist in
willful disobedience of any lawful writ, process,
order, rule, decree, or command of any district
court of the United States by doing or omitting
any act or thing in violation thereof, and the act
or thing done or omitted also constitutes a
criminal offense under any Act of Congress, or
under the laws of any state in which it was done
or omitted, the accused, upon demand therefor,
shall be entitled to trial by a jury, which shall
conform as near as may be to the practice in
other criminal cases.
This section shall not apply to contempts
committed in the presence of the court, or so
near thereto as to obstruct the administration
of justice, nor to contempts committed in dis-
obedience of any lawful writ, process, order,
rule, decree, or command entered in any suit or
action brought or prosecuted in the name of, or
on behalf of, the United States.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 844.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on sections 386, 389 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed.,
Judicial Code and Judiciary (Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, §§ 21,
24, 38 Stat. 738, 739).
The first paragraph of this section is completely re-
written from section 386 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Ju-
dicial Code and Judiciary, omitting everything covered
and superseded by rules 23 and 42 of the Federal Rules
of Criminal Procedure.
The second paragraph of this section is derived from
section 389 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Judicial Code and
Judiciary, om
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