18 U.S.C. § 3231
District courts
The district courts of the United States shall have original jurisdiction, exclusive of the courts of the States, of all offenses against the laws of the United States.
Nothing in this title shall be held to take away or impair the jurisdiction of the courts of the several States under the laws thereof.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6,627
cases (1,089 in the last 5 years), 1951–2026 · leading case: Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States
Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States (2023)
“The Second Circuit affrmed after frst determining that the District Court had subject matter jurisdiction over Halkbank's criminal prosecution under 18 U. S. C. § 3231 . The Sec- ond Circuit further held that even assuming the FSIA confers immunity in criminal proceedings,…”
United States v. Prado (2019)
“The factors that compel our agreement with Gonzalez are: (i) A general provision of United States law, 18 U.S.C. § 3231 , which defines the subject matter jurisdiction of the federal courts in relation to criminal statutes, confers subject matter jurisdiction on the federal…”
United States v. Pritchett (2007)
“at 1130 (citing 18 U.S.C. § 3231 , which confers original subject matter jurisdiction over all offenses against the laws of the United States).”
Tafflin v. Levitt (1990)
“Petitioners' primary contention is that concurrent jurisdiction is clearly incompatible with the federal interest in uniform interpretation of federal criminal laws, see 18 U. S. C. § 3231 , [2] because state courts would be required to construe the federal crimes that…”
United States v. Gerald Wheeler (2018)
“[ ]Jurisdiction to resolve claims under § 2255, which technically are motions in the criminal prosecution, comes from 18 U.S.C. § 3231 [.]" 425 F.3d 386 , 388 (7th Cir.”
United States v. Jacobo Castillo (2007)
“" 18 U.S.C. § 3231 ; see also Lamar v. United States, 240 U.”
United States v. Ignasio Maldenaldo Sanchez, United States of America v. Santiago Gilberto Sanchez (2001)
“On the con *1301 trary, a court’s power to adjudicate a federal criminal prosecution comes from 18 U.S.C. § 3231 , which gives federal courts original jurisdiction of “all offenses against the laws of the United States.”
United States v. Spaulding (2015)
“During the relatively short history of the era of Supreme Court-sanctioned plea bargaining, this court has not been able to locate a single case indicating that the general grant of jurisdiction over criminal cases set out in 18 U.S.C. § 3231 empowers a district court to,…”
Class v. United States (2018)
“See 18 U. S. C. §3231 . Cite as: 583 U. S. ____ (2018) 9 ALITO, J.”
United States v. Gabrion (2008)
“§ 547 (1) ("each United States attorney, within his district, shall prosecute for all offenses against the United States"); U.”
Valle Del Sol v. State of Arizona (2013)
“§ 1329 ; 18 U.S.C. § 3231 ; see also GLAHR, 691 F.”
United States v. Wells (2017)
“And it is equally patent that the court possessed statutory jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. § 3231 . See, e.g., United States v.”
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