---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 2245"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "2245"
heading: "Certificate of trial judge admissible in evidence"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/2245"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 153 — Habeas Corpus"
---

# §2245. Certificate of trial judge admissible in evidence


On the hearing of an application for a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the legality of the detention of a [person](/usc/28/3002.md?p=10) pursuant to a [judgment](/usc/28/3002.md?p=8) the certificate of the judge who presided at the trial resulting in the [judgment](/usc/28/3002.md?p=8), setting forth the facts occurring at the trial, shall be admissible in evidence. Copies of the certificate shall be filed with the [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2) in which the application is pending and in the [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2) in which the trial took place.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 966.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

This section makes no substantive change in existing law. It is derived from H.R. 4232 introduced in the first session of the Seventy-ninth Congress by Chairman Sumners of the House Committee on the Judiciary. It clarifies existing law and promotes uniform procedure.