{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s3297","title_num":"18","num":"§ 3297.","heading":"Cases involving DNA evidence","status":null,"guid":"idbea6c95b-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(Added Pub. L. 108–405, title II, § 204(a), Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2271; amended Pub. L. 109–162, title X, § 1005, Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3086.)","seq_in_title":1111,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptII/ch213","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18","level":"title","num":"Title 18—","heading":"CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptII","level":"part","num":"PART II—","heading":"CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptII/ch213","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 213—","heading":"LIMITATIONS","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id7541a987-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s3297\"><num value=\"3297\">§ 3297.</num><heading> Cases involving DNA evidence</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">In a case in which DNA testing implicates an identified person in the commission of a felony, no statute of limitations that would otherwise preclude prosecution of the offense shall preclude such prosecution until a period of time following the implication of the person by DNA testing has elapsed that is equal to the otherwise applicable limitation period.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id7541a988-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">(Added <ref href=\"/us/pl/108/405/tII/s204/a\">Pub. L. 108–405, title II, § 204(a)</ref>, <date date=\"2004-10-30\">Oct. 30, 2004</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/118/2271\">118 Stat. 2271</ref>; amended <ref href=\"/us/pl/109/162/tX/s1005\">Pub. L. 109–162, title X, § 1005</ref>, <date date=\"2006-01-05\">Jan. 5, 2006</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/119/3086\">119 Stat. 3086</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id7541a989-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"editorialNotes\" id=\"id7541a98a-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id7541a98b-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Amendments</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">2006—<ref href=\"/us/pl/109/162\">Pub. L. 109–162</ref> struck out “except for a felony offense under chapter 109A,” before “no statute of limitations”.</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"statutoryNotes\" id=\"id7541a98c-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"effectiveDate\" id=\"id7541a98d-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Effective Date</heading><p><ref href=\"/us/pl/108/405/tII/s204/c\">Pub. L. 108–405, title II, § 204(c)</ref>, <date date=\"2004-10-30\">Oct. 30, 2004</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/118/2271\">118 Stat. 2271</ref>, provided that: <quotedContent origin=\"/us/pl/108/405/tII/s204/c\">“The amendments made by this section [enacting this section] shall apply to the prosecution of any offense committed before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this section [<date date=\"2004-10-30\">Oct. 30, 2004</date>] if the applicable limitation period has not yet expired.”</quotedContent>\n</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-214","currency_date":"2020-12-05","congress":116,"law_num":214,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":218,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11a","15","16","18","18a","20","21","22","28a","31","37","38","39","40","41","51","52","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}