Concealing person from arrest
United States Code
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- 2025Williams v. Taylor S.D. Ohio
- 2025United States v. Marilyn Mosby 4th Cir.
- 2024Williams v. Taylor S.D. Ohio
- 2023United States v. Said 5th Cir.
- 2022United States v. Annamalai Annamalai 11th Cir.
- 2022United States v. Said 5th Cir.
- 2020United States v. Charles Spivey, Jr. 4th Cir.
- 2019United States v. Virgil Santa 9th Cir.
- 2019United States v. Annamalai Annamalai 11th Cir.
- 2019United States v. Waloke 8th Cir.
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Whoever harbors or conceals any person for whose arrest a warrant or process has been issued under the provisions of any law of the United States, so as to prevent his discovery and arrest, after notice or knowledge of the fact that a warrant or process has been issued for the apprehension of such person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; except that if the warrant or process issued on a charge of felony, or after conviction of such person of any offense, the punishment shall be a fine under this title, or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. (Source: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 755; Aug. 20, 1954, ch. 771, 68 Stat. 747; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), (K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title IV, § 4003(a)(3), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1811.))