Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Part D · Chapter 13 — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control
§ 850. Information for sentencing
Statutory text
Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter or section 242a(a) 1 of title 42, no limitation shall be placed on the information concerning the background, character, and conduct of a person convicted of an offense which a court of the United States may receive and consider for the purpose of imposing an appropriate sentence under this subchapter or subchapter II.
Footnotes
- 1 See References in Text note below.
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.
Controlled Substances Act
Pub. L. 91–513 title II § 410 · 84 Stat. 1236
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 850
(Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 410, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1269.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 410, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1269.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 410. information for sentencing Except as otherwise provided in this title or section 308(a) of the Public Health Service Act, no limitation shall be placed on the Ante, p. 1241 information concerning the background, character, and conduct of a person convicted of an offense which a court of the United States may receive and consider for the purpose of imposing an appropriate sentence under this title or title III. Post, p. 1285
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 242a of title 42, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 106–310, div. B, title XXXII, § 3201(b)(1), , 114 Stat. 1190.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective on first day of seventh calendar month that begins after , see section 704 of Pub. L. 91–513, set out as a note under section 801 of this title.