---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3189"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3189"
heading: "Place and character of hearing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3189"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 209 — Extradition"
---

# §3189. Place and character of hearing


Hearings in cases of extradition under treaty stipulation or convention shall be held on land, publicly, and in a room or office easily accessible to the public.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 824.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 657 (Aug. 3, 1882, ch. 378, § 1, 22 Stat. 215).

First word “All” was omitted as unnecessary.