18 U.S.C. § 3501
Admissibility of confessions
United States · Title 18 — CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Status: effective
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- 18 U.S.C. § 3501, Admissibility of confessions, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/449923
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The presence or absence of any of the above-mentioned factors to be taken into consideration by the judge need not be conclusive on the issue of voluntariness of the confession.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Judicial Improvements Act of 1990House: 386–18Senate: no recorded tally