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# 18 U.S.C. § 3437 - Severance—(Rule)

## Text

See Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Relief from prejudicial joinder of defendants or offenses, Rule 14.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 832.)