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# 18 U.S.C. § 3483 - Indigent defendants, process to produce evidence—(Rule)

## Text

See Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Subpoena for indigent defendants, motion, affidavit, costs, Rule 17(b).

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 833.)