A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code with regard to the admissibility of business records located in foreign nations and for other purposes.

Summary

Amends the Federal criminal code to admit into evidence in any criminal proceeding foreign business records kept in the course of regularly conducted business activity. Provides for certification in order to insure the documents' authenticity and accuracy. Provides procedures for service on the Attorney General and other appropriate Government attorneys of papers filed in opposition to an official request by the United States to a foreign government for criminal evidence. Allows for the appointment of a special master at a foreign deposition. Allows the district court before which a grand jury is impaneled to suspend the statute of limitations for an offense to permit the United States to obtain foreign evidence. Limits the total of all periods of suspension for a single offense to three years.

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 30 July 1984

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 25 July 1984

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 22 June 1984

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