---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3502"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3502"
heading: "Admissibility in evidence of eye witness testimony"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3502"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 223 — Witnesses and Evidence"
---

# §3502. Admissibility in evidence of eye witness testimony


The testimony of a witness that he saw the accused commit or participate in the commission of the crime for which the accused is being tried shall be admissible in evidence in a criminal prosecution in any trial court ordained and established under article III of the Constitution of the United States.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 90–351, title II, § 701(a), June 19, 1968, 82 Stat. 211.)