The supreme court is authorized to employ, reassign or contract with individuals utilizing special funds appropriated solely for the purpose of providing prompt and fair adjudication of post-conviction proceedings in capital sentence cases, including authority to assign the additional personnel the duties of personnel reassigned to the post-conviction cases. In no event shall the employment, contract or expenditures under this authority extend beyond a two-year period.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 16-3-212
Special personnel for expedition of post-conviction proceedings in capital cases
Known as the Integrated Criminal Justice Act
The act spans §§ 16–16 (72 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Thompson v. State (1997)
Most recently applied in Thompson v. State (May 1997)
Acts 1993, ch. 472, § 4.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.