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Chapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 23–101. Conduct of prosecutions - (a) Prosecutions for violations of all police or municipal ordinances...
§ 23–102. Abandonment of prosecution; enlargement of time for taking action - If any person charged with a criminal offense shall have...
§ 23–103. Statements prior to sentence - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...
§ 23–103a. Rights of victims of crime. [Repealed] - Repealed. (May 10, 1989, D.C. Law 7-229, § 2(b), 35...
§ 23–104. Appeals by United States and District of Columbia - (a)(1) The United States or the District of Columbia may...
§ 23–105. Challenges to jurors - (a) In a trial for an offense punishable by death,...
§ 23–106. Witnesses for defense; fees - The court shall order at any time that a subpoena...
§ 23–107. Discharge or acquittal of joint defendant during trial in order to be witness - (a) When two or more persons are jointly indicted or...
§ 23–108. Depositions - (a) If a material witness for either the prosecution or...
§ 23–109. Powers of investigators assigned to United States Attorney - Any special investigator appointed by the Attorney General and assigned...
§ 23–110. Remedies on motion attacking sentence - (a) A prisoner in custody under sentence of the Superior...
§ 23–111. Proceedings to establish previous convictions - (a)(1) No person who stands convicted of an offense under...
§ 23–112. Consecutive and concurrent sentences - A sentence imposed on a person for conviction of an...
§ 23–112a. Notice at sentencing of child support modification - (a) At all sentencing proceedings in which an individual will...
§ 23–113. Limitations on actions for criminal violations - (a) Time limitations. — (1) A prosecution for the following...
§ 23–114. Corroboration of a child witness’ testimony not required - For purposes of prosecutions brought under Title 22 of the...
§ 23–115. Limits on defenses that justify, excuse, or mitigate a defendant's conduct on the basis of a victim's gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation - (a) In any prosecution, criminal proceeding, or criminal trial, when...
Chapter 3 - Indictments and Informations
Subchapter I - General Provisions
§ 23–301. Prosecution by indictment or information - An offense prosecuted in the Superior Court which may be...
Subchapter II - Joinder
§ 23–311. Joinder of offenses and of defendants - (a) Two or more offenses may be charged in the...
§ 23–312. Joinder of indictments or informations for trial - The court may order two or more indictments or informations,...
§ 23–313. Relief from prejudicial joinder - If it appears that a defendant or the government is...
§ 23–314. Joinder of inconsistent offenses concerning the same property. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Dec. 1, 1982, D.C. Law 4-164, § 602(a), 29...
Subchapter III - Sufficiency
§ 23–321. Description of money - In every indictment or information, except for forgery, in which...
§ 23–322. Intent to defraud - In an indictment or information in which it is necessary...
§ 23–323. Perjury - In every information or indictment for perjury, it shall be...
§ 23–324. Subornation of perjury - In every information or indictment for subornation of perjury, or...
Subchapter IV - Fictitious Name Indictments
§ 23–331. Fictitious name indictments for first or second degree sexual abuse or first or second degree child sexual abuse. [Repealed] - [Repealed]. (May 10, 2005, D.C. Law 15-356, § 3(b), 52...
Chapter 5 - Warrants and Arrests
Subchapter I - Definitions
§ 23–501. Definitions - *NOTE: This section includes amendments by temporary legistation that will...
Subchapter II - Search Warrants
§ 23–521. Nature and issuance of search warrants - (a) Under circumstances described in this subchapter, a judicial officer...
§ 23–522. Applications for search warrants - (a) Each application for a search warrant shall be made...
§ 23–523. Time of execution of search warrants - (a) A search warrant shall not be executed more than...
§ 23–524. Execution of search warrants - (a) An officer executing a warrant directing a search of...
§ 23–525. Disposition of property - A law enforcement officer or a designated civilian employee of...
§ 23–526. Limitations on consent searches - *NOTE: This section was created by temporary legistation that will...
Subchapter II-A - Currency Seized by the Metropolitan Police Department
§ 23–531. Definitions - For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Seized-currency”...
§ 23–532. Depositing of seized currency - (a)(1) Seized currency shall be promptly deposited in an interest-bearing...
§ 23–533. Rules - The Chief of Police, in consultation with the United States...
§ 23–534. Applicability - The provisions of this subchapter shall apply to any seized...
Subchapter III - Wire Interception and Interception of Oral Communications
§ 23–541. Definitions - As used in this subchapter — (1) the term “wire...
§ 23–542. Interception, disclosure, and use of wire or oral communications prohibited - (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this subchapter, any...
§ 23–543. Possession, sale, distribution, manufacture, assembly, and advertising of wire or oral communication intercepting devices prohibited - (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided in subsection (b) of...
§ 23–544. Confiscation of wire or oral communication intercepting devices - Any intercepting device in the District of Columbia — (1)...
§ 23–545. Immunity of witnesses. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Oct. 15, 1970, 84 Stat. 931, Pub. L. 91-452,...
§ 23–546. Applications for authorization or approval of interception of wire or oral communications - (a) The United States attorney may authorize, in writing, any...
§ 23–547. Procedure for authorization or approval of interception of wire or oral communications - (a) Each application for an order authorizing or approving the...
§ 23–548. Additional procedure for approval of interception of wire or oral communications - (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, any investigative...
§ 23–549. Maintenance and custody of records - (a) The contents of any wire or oral communication intercepted...
§ 23–550. Inventory - Within a reasonable time but not later than ninety days...
§ 23–551. Procedure for disclosure and suppression of intercepted wire or oral communications - (a) The contents of any intercepted wire or oral communication...
§ 23–552. Government appeals - In addition to any other right to appeal, the United...
§ 23–553. Authorization for disclosure and use of intercepted wire or oral communications - (a) Any investigative or law enforcement officer who, by any...
§ 23–554. Authorization for recovery of civil damages - (a) Any person whose wire or oral communication is intercepted,...
§ 23–555. Reports concerning intercepted wire or oral communications - (a) Within thirty days after the expiration of an order...
§ 23–556. Relation to Federal law on wire interception and interception of oral communications - (a) Sections 23-542, 23-543, 23-545 [repealed], 23-553, 23-554, and 23-555...
Subchapter IV - Arrest Warrant and Summons
§ 23–561. Issuance, form, and contents - (a)(1) A judicial officer may issue a warrant for the...
§ 23–562. Execution and return - (a)(1) A warrant issued pursuant to this subchapter shall be...
§ 23–563. Territorial and other limits - (a) A warrant or summons for a felony under sections...
Subchapter V - Arrest Without Warrant
§ 23–581. Arrests without warrant by law enforcement officers - *NOTE: This section includes amendments by temporary legistation that will...
§ 23–582. Arrests without warrant by other persons - (a) A special policeman shall have the same powers as...
§ 23–583. Processing arrests - Unless a person is not eligible for release under §...
§ 23–584. Field arrest and release on citation - (a) In lieu of taking a person into custody, a...
§ 23–585. Violation of condition of release on citation; failure to appear - (a) A person who knowingly fails to abide by a...
Subchapter VI - Authority to Break and Enter Under Certain Conditions
§ 23–591. Authority to break and enter under certain conditions. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Oct. 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 1455, Pub. L. 93-481,...
Chapter 7 - Extradition and Fugitives from Justice
§ 23–701. Warrants for the arrest of fugitives from justice - Whenever any person who is (1) within the District of...
§ 23–702. Procedure on arrest of fugitives - (a) Any person arrested upon a warrant issued pursuant to...
§ 23–703. Failure to appear - Any person released pursuant to section 23-702 who fails to...
§ 23–704. Extradition - (a) In all cases where the laws of the United...
§ 23–705. Removal proceedings and returns to foreign countries not affected - Nothing contained in this chapter shall repeal, modify, or in...
§ 23–706. Confinement - (a) The agent of the demanding State to whom the...
§ 23–707. Definitions - For purposes of this chapter — (1) the term “State”...
Chapter 9 - Fresh Pursuit
§ 23–901. Arrests in the District of Columbia by officers of other States - Any member of a duly organized peace unit of any...
§ 23–902. Hearing; commitment; discharge - If an arrest is made in the District of Columbia...
§ 23–903. “Fresh pursuit” defined - For purposes of this chapter, the term “fresh pursuit” shall...
Chapter 11 - Professional Bondsmen
§ 23–1101. Definitions - For purposes of this chapter — (1) the term “bonding...
§ 23–1102. Bonding business impressed with public interests - The bonding business is impressed with a public interest. (July...
§ 23–1103. Procuring business through official or attorney for a consideration prohibited - It shall be unlawful for any bondsman, either directly or...
§ 23–1104. Attorneys procuring employment through official or bondsman for a consideration prohibited - It shall be unlawful for any attorney at law, either...
§ 23–1105. Receiving other than regular fee for bonding prohibited; bondsmen prohibited from endeavoring to secure dismissal or settlement - It shall be lawful to charge for executing a bond...
§ 23–1106. Posting names of authorized bondsmen; list to be furnished prisoners; prisoners may communicate with bondsmen; record to be kept by police - A typewritten or printed list alphabetically arranged of all persons...
§ 23–1107. Bondsmen prohibited from entering place of detention unless requested by prisoner; record of visit to be kept - It shall be unlawful for a bondsman to enter a...
§ 23–1108. Qualifications of bondsmen; rules to be prescribed by courts; list of agents to be furnished; renewal of authority to act; detailed records to be kept; penalties and disqualifications - (a) It shall be the duty of the United States...
§ 23–1109. Giving advance information of proposed raid prohibited - It shall be unlawful for any police officer or other...
§ 23–1110. Designation of official to issue citations or take money or bond - (a) For the purposes of this section, the term: (1)...
§ 23–1111. Penalties - Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be...
§ 23–1112. Enforcement - It shall be the duty of the Superior Court and...
Chapter 13 - Bail Agency [Pretrial Services Agency] and Pretrial Detention
Subchapter I - District of Columbia Bail Agency [Pretrial Services Agency]
§ 23–1301. Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia - The Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia (hereafter...
§ 23–1302. Definitions - As used in this chapter — (1) the term “judicial...
§ 23–1303. Interviews with detainees; investigations and reports; information as confidential; consideration and use of reports in making bail determinations - (a) The agency shall, except when impracticable, interview any person...
§ 23–1304. Executive committee; composition; appointment and qualifications of Director - (a) The agency shall be advised by an executive committee...
§ 23–1305. Duties of director; compensation - The Director of the agency shall be responsible for the...
§ 23–1306. Chief assistant and other agency personnel; compensation - The Director shall employ a chief assistant who shall be...
§ 23–1307. Annual reports - The Director shall each year submit to the executive committee...
§ 23–1308. Appropriation; budget - There are authorized to be appropriated through the State Justice...
§ 23–1309. References to “Bail Agency” deemed to be to “Pretrial Services Agency.” - Any reference in any law, rule, regulation, document, or record...
Subchapter II - Release and Pretrial Detention
§ 23–1321. Release prior to trial - (a) Upon the appearance before a judicial officer of a...
§ 23–1322. Detention prior to trial - (a) The judicial officer shall order the detention of a...
§ 23–1323. Detention of addict - (a) Whenever it appears that a person charged with a...
§ 23–1324. Appeal from conditions of release - (a) A person who is detained, or whose release on...
§ 23–1325. Release in first degree murder, second degree murder, and assault with intent to kill while armed cases or after conviction - (a) A person who is charged with murder in the...
§ 23–1326. Release of material witnesses - If it appears by affidavit that the testimony of a...
§ 23–1327. Penalties for failure to appear - (a) Whoever, having been released under this title prior to...
§ 23–1328. Penalties for offenses committed during release - (a) Any person convicted of an offense committed while released...
§ 23–1329. Penalties for violation of conditions of release - (a) A person who has been conditionally released pursuant to...
§ 23–1330. Contempt - Nothing in this subchapter shall interfere with or prevent the...
§ 23–1331. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) The term “judicial officer”...
§ 23–1332. Applicability of subchapter - The provisions of this subchapter shall apply in the District...
§ 23–1333. Consideration of juvenile history - A judicial officer shall, in determining whether there are conditions...
Chapter 15 - Out-of-State Witnesses
§ 23–1501. Definitions - As used in this chapter — (1) The term “witness”...
§ 23–1502. Hearing on recall of out-of-State witnesses by State courts; determination; travel allowance; penalty - (a) If a judge of a court of record in...
§ 23–1503. Certificate providing for attendance of witnesses at criminal prosecutions in the District of Columbia; travel allowance; penalty - (a) If a person in any State, which by its...
§ 23–1504. Exemption from arrest - (a) Any person who comes into the District of Columbia...
Chapter 17 - Death Penalty. [Repealed]
§ 23–1701. Capital punishment [Repealed] - Repealed. (Feb. 26, 1981, D.C. Law 3-113, § 3, 27...
§ 23–1702. Provision for death chamber; appointment of executioner and assistants; fees [Repealed] - Repealed. (Feb. 26, 1981, D.C. Law 3-113, § 3, 27...
§ 23–1703. Sentences to be in writing and certified copy furnished [Repealed] - Repealed. (Feb. 26, 1981, D.C. Law 3-113, § 3, 27...
§ 23–1704. Who may be present at execution; fact of execution to be certified to clerk of court [Repealed] - Repealed. (Feb. 26, 1981, D.C. Law 3-113, § 3, 27...
§ 23–1705. Place of execution [Repealed] - Repealed. (Feb. 26, 1981, D.C. Law 3-113, § 3, 27...
Chapter 19 - Crime Victims’ Rights
Subchapter I - General
§ 23–1901. Crime victims’ bill of rights - (a) Officers or employees of the District of Columbia engaged...
§ 23–1902. Notice to crime victims - (a) The head of each department and agency of the...
§ 23–1903. Crime victim privacy and security - (a) Before, during, and immediately after any court proceeding, the...
§ 23–1904. Crime victims’ rights at sentencing - (a) Crime victims shall have the right to be present...
§ 23–1905. Definitions - For purposes of this section, (1) The term “community” means...
§ 23–1906. Applicability - The provisions of this chapter requiring notice to the victim...
Subchapter II - Sexual assault victim advocates and sexual assault youth victim advocates; sexual assault victim advocate dispatch system
§ 23–1907. Definitions - For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) "DC...
§ 23–1908. Sexual assault victims' rights - (a) In addition to the rights set forth in subchapter...
§ 23–1909. Sexual assault victim advocates and sexual assault youth victim advocates; sexual assault victim advocate dispatch system - (a)(1) Hospitals shall, if a sexual assault victim who is...
§ 23–1910. Access to information - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...
§ 23–1911. No cause of action - This subchapter does not create a cause of action or...