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Nothing in the Act may be construed to conflict with crime victims' rights under section 3771

To provide for the vacating of certain convictions and expungement of certain arrests of victims of human trafficking, section 8, Sec. 8. Written by .

Nothing in the Act may be construed to conflict with crime victims' rights under section 3771

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What the document says

“Nothing in this Act, or the amendments made by this Act, may be construed to conflict with any of the crime victims' rights described in section 3771 of title 18, United States Code.”

To provide for the vacating of certain convictions and expungement of certain arrests of victims of human trafficking, Sec. 8

A rule of construction covering the whole Act and every amendment it makes. Neither may be read to conflict with any of the crime victims' rights described in section 3771 of title 18, United States Code. Section 2 makes the same point for one subsection, stating that any sentence reduction proceeding is subject to section 3771. That statute is not indexed here, so nothing is recorded about the rights it describes.

What the document actually says

“Nothing in this Act, or the amendments made by this Act, may be construed to conflict with any of the crime victims' rights described in section 3771 of title 18, United States Code.”

To provide for the vacating of certain convictions and expungement of certain arrests of victims of human trafficking, Sec. 8
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Nothing in this law may be read as a clash with the rights of crime victims. Those rights are set out in part 3771 of title 18.

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This is a rule about reading, not a new job for anyone. If two parts seem to fight, this one wins. This site does not index part 3771.

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