---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3173"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3173"
heading: "Sixth amendment rights"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3173"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 208 — Speedy Trial"
---

# §3173. Sixth amendment rights


No provision of this chapter shall be interpreted as a bar to any claim of denial of speedy trial as required by amendment VI of the Constitution.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 93–619, title I, § 101, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2085.)