47 U.S.C. § 505 — Venue of trials
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This section addresses Venue of trials. Its specific rules, powers, duties, limits, and definitions are set out in the provisions below.
The trial of any offense under this chapter must be in the district in which it is committed; or if the offense is committed upon the high seas, or out of the jurisdiction of any particular State* or district, the trial must be in the district where the offender can be found or into which he must be first brought. when the offense is begun in one jurisdiction and completed in another it can be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in either jurisdiction in the same manner as if the offense had been actually and wholly committed in it.
The trial of any offense under this chapter shall be in the district in which it is committed; or if the offense is committed upon the high seas, or out of the jurisdiction of any particular State* or district, the trial shall be in the district where the offender may be found or into which he shall be first brought. Whenever the offense is begun in one jurisdiction and completed in another it may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in either jurisdiction in the same manner as if the offense had been actually and wholly committed therein.
Source credit: (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title V, § 505, 48 Stat. 1101.)
- 1934Enacted · Act of June 19, 1934, ch. 652 · 48 Stat. 1101
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