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Crimes and Criminal Procedure - 18 USC Section 3691

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01/19/04

Sec. 3691. Jury trial of criminal contempts

      Whenever a contempt charged shall consist in willful disobedience
    of any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of any
    district court of the United States by doing or omitting any act or
    thing in violation thereof, and the act or thing done or omitted
    also constitutes a criminal offense under any Act of Congress, or
    under the laws of any state in which it was done or omitted, the
    accused, upon demand therefor, shall be entitled to trial by a
    jury, which shall conform as near as may be to the practice in
    other criminal cases.
      This section shall not apply to contempts committed in the
    presence of the court, or so near thereto as to obstruct the
    administration of justice, nor to contempts committed in
    disobedience of any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or
    command entered in any suit or action brought or prosecuted in the
    name of, or on behalf of, the United States.

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