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Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Part II · Chapter 235 — Appeal

§ 3741. Harmless error and plain error—(Rule)

Statutory text

See Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Error or defect as affecting substantial rights, Rule 52. Defects in indictment, Rule 7. Waiver of error, Rules 12(b)(2) and 30.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683

    Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 3741

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 846.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 846.)

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Credits

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 846.)

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