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# 18 U.S.C. § 3234 - Change of venue to another district—(Rule)

## Text

See Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Plea or disposal of case in district other than that in which defendant was arrested, Rule 20.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 826.)