Fabio
76b8ec33a7
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
44 lines
2.0 KiB
Markdown
44 lines
2.0 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "LegalText"
|
||
title: "18 U.S.C. § 3481"
|
||
description: "Competency of accused"
|
||
jurisdiction: "us"
|
||
corpus: "united_states_code"
|
||
kind: "code_section"
|
||
title_number: 18
|
||
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
|
||
chapter_number: "223"
|
||
chapter_name: "WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE"
|
||
section: "3481"
|
||
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3481"
|
||
status: "current"
|
||
release_point: "119-100"
|
||
release_date: "2026-06-26"
|
||
source: "official"
|
||
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc18@119-100.zip"
|
||
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t18/s3481"
|
||
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-18/usc18.xml"
|
||
source_hash: "4111ed67e78d6d174846410c636c55d4b7a0ff6bb538baeae1493f0a734743ab"
|
||
raw_snapshot_hash: "1a1bbbbdb59e376ada4eb7ad1056fd68d396679ee7ab59f0561af15006122708"
|
||
text_hash: "2e2e5715c441ad710840509f7e39dd693af26e9b7744c41bf740de69dbd4c19a"
|
||
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
|
||
confidence: "official"
|
||
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
# 18 U.S.C. § 3481 - Competency of accused
|
||
|
||
## Text
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 833.)
|
||
|
||
## Notes
|
||
|
||
Historical and Revision NotesBased on section 632 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Judicial 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 AmendmentPub. 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 provisions set out as a note under section 3510 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Victim Rights Clarification Act of 1997’.”
|