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[CITE: 28USC2245]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART VI--PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS
 
                       CHAPTER 153--HABEAS CORPUS
 
Sec. 2245. Certificate of trial judge admissible in evidence

    On the hearing of an application for a writ of habeas corpus to 
inquire into the legality of the detention of a person pursuant to a 
judgment the certificate of the judge who presided at the trial 
resulting in the judgment, setting forth the facts occurring at the 
trial, shall be admissible in evidence. Copies of the certificate shall 
be filed with the court in which the application is pending and in the 
court in which the trial took place.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 966.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    This section makes no substantive change in existing law. It is 
derived from H.R. 4232 introduced in the first session of the Seventy-
ninth Congress by Chairman Sumners of the House Committee on the 
Judiciary. It clarifies existing law and promotes uniform procedure.
