Articles Posted in Legislation 2009

The second post in this series reports on a new law that confers immunity from civil action upon victims of crime for testimony given at offender’s parole hearing unless testimony is intentionally or maliciously false and defamatory. Here is the full text of the new statute: T.C.A. Section 40-38-303. (a)…

This post is a first in a series of posts that will address new laws passed by the 106th General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Bredesen.  The posts will run two or three days per week over the next several weeks. The first post is a change to…