Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-73
§3190 Evidence on hearing
Title 18 › Part PART II— - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE › Chapter CHAPTER 209— - EXTRADITION › § 3190
Summary
Courts must accept depositions, warrants, and other documents as evidence in an extradition hearing if those papers are properly verified in the same way the foreign country’s courts would accept them. A signed certificate from the main U.S. diplomatic or consular officer living in that country is proof the papers were verified correctly.
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Title 18, §3190
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Depositions, warrants, or other papers or copies thereof offered in evidence upon the hearing of any extradition case shall be received and admitted as evidence on such hearing for all the purposes of such hearing if they shall be properly and legally authenticated so as to entitle them to be received for similar purposes by the tribunals of the foreign country from which the accused party shall have escaped, and the certificate of the principal diplomatic or consular officer of the United States resident in such foreign country shall be proof that the same, so offered, are authenticated in the manner required.
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Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 655 (R.S. § 5271; Aug. 3, 1882, ch. 378, § 5, 22 Stat. 216). Unnecessary words were deleted.
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18 U.S.C. § 3190
Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73