Browse Arkansas Code titles and sections
18 U.S.C. § 3481 — Competency of accused
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
In trial of all persons charged with the commission of offenses against the United States and in all proceedings in courts martial and courts of inquiry in any State, District, Possession or Territory, the person charged shall, at his own request, be a competent witness. His failure to make such request shall not create any presumption against him.
Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 18 U.S.C. § 3481
Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.
Original supplied file — preserved unchanged
Download original Markdown file
File SHA-256: 1611d3bf19ef36e3d5931db404cdc8505998f5ae5eefe149c48f438e18fd9f6e. The original may include catalog metadata, neighboring provisions, or embedded records outside this collection's scope. Search shows only the selected federal record. Historical editions and unverified snapshots are not a statement of current law.
Authority boundary: historical or unconfirmed source not current law verified.
Open the recorded source website ↗
Record provenance
Stable record: federal_law:legal_authorities:record_usc_82cb6b5e3ca5698e150eb992
Source file: Laws/federal/codes/united-states-code/title-18/section-3481-competency-of-accused--058dfc3424.md
Pages: Not recorded – Not recorded
Passage SHA-256: d7350430fda50c55a9293d5606e22da2e92745d64119b2776db5e283396e1bd7
Source location: Title 18, Chapter 223, § 3481; chapter-223-witnesses-and-evidence.md
Stored source content
In trial of all persons charged with the commission of offenses against the United States and in all proceedings in courts martial and courts of inquiry in any State, District, Possession or Territory, the person charged shall, at his own request, be a competent witness. His failure to make such request shall not create any presumption against him.
Cross-references
Connections may be documented source relationships, shared citations or nearby passages. Each explains its basis; a connection alone does not establish applicability to your situation.
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
**(a) Non-Capital Cases.—** Notwithstanding any statute, rule, or other provision of law, a United States district court shall not order any victim of an offense excluded from the trial of a defendant accused of that offense because such victim may, during the sentencing hearing, make a statement or present any information in relation to the sentence.
**(b) Capital Cases.—** Notwithstanding any statute, rule, or other provision of law, a United States district court shall not order any victim of an offense excluded from the trial of a defendant accused of that offense because such victim may, during the sentencing hearing, testify as to the effect of the offense on the victim and the victim’s family or as to any other factor for which notice is required under section 3593(a).
**(c) Definition.—** As used in this section, the term “victim” includes all persons defined as victims in section 503(e)(2) of the Victims’ Rights and Restitution Act of 1990.
Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 18 U.S.C. § 3510
Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. Explicit cross-reference supplied in source Markdown; currentness and applicability require review.
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
**(a)** Full-time United States magistrate judges may not engage in the practice of law, and may not engage in any other business, occupation, or employment inconsistent with the expeditious, proper, and impartial performance of their duties as judicial officers.
**(b)** Part-time United States magistrate judges shall render such service as judicial officers as is required by law. While so serving they may engage in the practice of law, but may not serve as counsel in any criminal action in any court of the United States, nor act in any capacity that is, under such regulations as the conference may establish, inconsistent with the proper discharge of their office. Within such restrictions, they may engage in any other business, occupation, or employment which is not inconsistent with the expeditious, proper, and impartial performance of their duties as judicial officers.
Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 28 U.S.C. § 632
Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. Explicit cross-reference supplied in source Markdown; currentness and applicability require review.
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
**(a) Notice by the Government.—** If, in a case involving an offense described in section 3591, the attorney for the government believes that the circumstances of the offense are such that a sentence of death is justified under this chapter, the attorney shall, a reasonable time before the trial or before acceptance by the court of a plea of guilty, sign and file with the court, and serve on the defendant, a notice—
(1) stating that the government believes that the circumstances of the offense are such that, if the defendant is convicted, a sentence of death is justified under this chapter and that the government will seek the sentence of death; and
(2) setting forth the aggravating factor or factors that the government, if the defendant is convicted, proposes to prove as justifying a sentence of death.
The factors for which notice is provided under this subsection may include factors concerning the effect of the offense on the victim and the victim’s family, and may include oral testimony, a victim impact statement that identifies the victim of the offense and the extent and scope of the injury and loss suffered by the victim and the victim’s family, and any other relevant information. The court may permit the attorney for the government to amend the notice upon a showing of good cause.
**(b) Hearing Before a Court or Jury.—** If the attorney for the government has filed a notice as required under subsection (a) and the defendant is found guilty of or pleads guilty to an offense described in section 3591, the judge who presided at the trial or before whom the guilty plea was entered, or another judge if that judge is unavailable, shall conduct a separate sentencing hearing to determine the punishment to be imposed. The hearing shall be conducted—
(1) before the ju
Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 18 U.S.C. § 3593
Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. Explicit cross-reference supplied in source Markdown; currentness and applicability require review.
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
**(a)** Whoever knowingly forges, counterfeits, alters, or falsely makes any immigrant or nonimmigrant visa, permit, border crossing card, alien registration receipt card, or other document prescribed by statute or regulation for entry into or as evidence of authorized stay or employment in the United States, or utters, uses, attempts to use, possesses, obtains, accepts, or receives any such visa, permit, border crossing card, alien registration receipt card, or other document prescribed by statute or regulation for entry into or as evidence of authorized stay or employment in the United States, knowing it to be forged, counterfeited, altered, or falsely made, or to have been procured by means of any false claim or statement, or to have been otherwise procured by fraud or unlawfully obtained; orWhoever, except under direction of the Attorney General or the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or other proper officer, knowingly possesses any blank permit, or engraves, sells, brings into the United States, or has in his control or possession any plate in the likeness of a plate designed for the printing of permits, or makes any print, photograph, or impression in the likeness of any immigrant or nonimmigrant visa, permit or other document required for entry into the United States, or has in his possession a distinctive paper which has been adopted by the Attorney General or the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the printing of such visas, permits, or documents; or Whoever, when applying for an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa, permit, or other document required for entry into the United States, or for admission to the United States personates another, or falsely appears in the name of a deceased individual, or evades or at
Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 18 U.S.C. § 1546
Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. Incoming connection: Explicit cross-reference supplied in source Markdown; currentness and applicability require review.
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
**(a)**
(1) The Attorney General may provide for the relocation and other protection of a witness or a potential witness for the Federal Government or for a State government in an official proceeding concerning an organized criminal activity or other serious offense, if the Attorney General determines that an offense involving a crime of violence directed at the witness with respect to that proceeding, an offense set forth in chapter 73 of this title directed at the witness, or a State offense that is similar in nature to either such offense, is likely to be committed. The Attorney General may also provide for the relocation and other protection of the immediate family of, or a person otherwise closely associated with, such witness or potential witness if the family or person may also be endangered on account of the participation of the witness in the judicial proceeding.
(2) The Attorney General shall issue guidelines defining the types of cases for which the exercise of the authority of the Attorney General contained in paragraph (1) would be appropriate.
(3) The United States and its officers and employees shall not be subject to any civil liability on account of any decision to provide or not to provide protection under this chapter.
**(b)**
(1) In connection with the protection under this chapter of a witness, a potential witness, or an immediate family member or close associate of a witness or potential witness, the Attorney General shall take such action as the Attorney General determines to be necessary to protect the person involved from bodily injury and otherwise to assure the health, safety, and welfare of that person, including the psychological well-being and social adjustment of that person, for as long as, in the judgment of the Attorney General, th
Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 18 U.S.C. § 3521
Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. Incoming connection: Explicit cross-reference supplied in source Markdown; currentness and applicability require review.
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
Page 770
TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 3481
1 So in original. Probably should be section ‘‘3056(a),’’.
1968—Pub. L. 90–351, title II, § 701(b), June 19, 1968, 82
Stat. 211, added items 3501 and 3502.
1957—Pub. L. 85–269, Sept. 2, 1957, 71 Stat. 596, added
item 3500.
1954—Act Aug. 20, 1954, ch. 769, § 2, 68 Stat. 746, re-
phrased item 3486.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
PROTECTED FACILITIES FOR HOUSING GOVERNMENT
WITNESSES
Pub. L. 91–452, title V, §§ 501–504, Oct. 15, 1970, 84 Stat.
933, which authorized the Attorney General to provide
for the security of Government witnesses and the fami-
lies of Government witnesses in legal proceedings
against any person alleged to have participated in an
organized criminal activity, was repealed by Pub. L.
98–473, title II, § 1209(b), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2163, effec-
tive Oct. 1, 1984.
§ 3481. Competency of accused
In trial of all persons charged with the com-
mission of offenses against the United States
and in all proceedings in courts martial and
courts of inquiry in any State, District, Posses-
sion or Territory, the person charged shall, at
his own request, be a competent witness. His
failure to make such request shall not create
any presumption against him.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 833.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on section 632 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Judi-
cial Code and Judiciary, and section 1200, Art. 42(a), of
Title 34, Navy. (Mar. 16, 1878, ch. 37, 20 Stat. 30).
Section was rewritten without change of substance.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
SHORT TITLE OF 1997 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 105–6, § 1, Mar. 19, 1997, 111 Stat. 12, provided
that: ‘‘This Act [enacting section 3510 of this title,
amending section 3593 of this title, and enacting pr
Source: Supplied 2024 U.S. Code historical extraction · 18 U.S.C. § 3481
Stored review status: historical_2024_not_currentness_verified. Same stored citation; legal effect and authority still require review.