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Title 18a

§ 10. Identification of information related to the national defense

Statutory text

In any prosecution in which the United States must establish that material relates to the national defense or constitutes classified information, the United States shall notify the defendant, within the time before trial specified by the court, of the portions of the material that it reasonably expects to rely upon to establish the national defense or classified information element of the offense.

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. 96–456 § 10 · 94 Stat. 2025

    Enacted · -us-usc-t18a-pl-96-456-s10

    (Pub. L. 96–456, § 10, Oct. 15, 1980, 94 Stat. 2029.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–456, § 10, Oct. 15, 1980, 94 Stat. 2029.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 10. identification of information related to the national defense In any prosecution in which the United States must Notification of defendant. 18 USC app. establish that material relates to the national defense or constitutes classified information, the United States shall notify the defendant, within the time before trial specified by the court, of the portions of the material that it reasonably expects to rely upon to establish the national defense or classified information element of the offense.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 96–456, § 10, , 94 Stat. 2029.)

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