Criminal Law Reference
Search the current platform-safe charge catalog from Title 18 and the D.C. Criminal Code adopted as federal law.
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This reference is intentionally limited to current, platform-safe criminal charges from Title 18 and the D.C. Criminal Code federalized by Public Law 36-260. General provisions, duplicate offense sets, and restricted-content sections are not included in the booking catalog.
Controlling Sources
Dissolved the municipal government and adopted the D.C. Criminal Code as federal law in § 10(b), adding a new § 102(11) assigning prosecutions to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Section 10(e) says the adopted laws remain in force until amended or repealed by Congress.
Open Public Law 36-260Re-established a Federal Criminal Code for the District of Columbia. A section-by-section catalog review found that all 66 FCC offenses duplicate D.C. Criminal Code offenses by section number, offense heading, and class. The FCC source remains preserved, but it is omitted from the booking API to avoid duplicate charges.
Open Public Law 37-261Controls non-court-imposed sentencing and caps multi-charge imprisonment at 30 minutes. Its felony/misdemeanor class scheme is kept separate because the supplied law does not expressly cross-walk it to the federalized D.C. Criminal Code’s A–G offense classes.
Open Public Law 39-267Public Law 39-267 uses Class A–E felonies and Class A–C misdemeanors, while the federalized D.C. Criminal Code assigns offenses Classes A–G. Because the supplied enactments do not state a crosswalk, the reference keeps the schedules separate rather than inventing one.
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