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[CITE: 10USC831]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 47--UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE
 
                   SUBCHAPTER VI--PRE-TRIAL PROCEDURE
 
Sec. 831. Art. 31. Compulsory self-incrimination prohibited

    (a) No person subject to this chapter may compel any person to 
incriminate himself or to answer any question the answer to which may 
tend to incriminate him.
    (b) No person subject to this chapter may interrogate, or request 
any statement from, an accused or a person suspected of an offense 
without first informing him of the nature of the accusation and advising 
him that he does not have to make any statement regarding the offense of 
which he is accused or suspected and that any statement made by him may 
be used as evidence against him in a trial by court-martial.
    (c) No person subject to this chapter may compel any person to make 
a statement or produce evidence before any military tribunal if the 
statement or evidence is not material to the issue and may tend to 
degrade him.
    (d) No statement obtained from any person in violation of this 
article, or through the use of coercion, unlawful influence, or unlawful 
inducement may be received in evidence against him in a trial by court-
martial.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 48.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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831(a)................................  50:602(a).                           Ma
y 5, 1950, ch. 169, Sec.  1 (Art
831(b)................................  50:602(b).                            3
1), 64 Stat. 118.
831(c)................................  50:602(c).
831(d)................................  50:602(d).
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    The word ``may'' is substituted for the word ``shall'' throughout 
the revised section.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 937 of this title.
