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Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-21-101

Grounds for writ

Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case State v. Mixon (1999)

Most recently applied in State of Tennessee v. Adrian R. Brown (December 2015)

Code 1858, § 3720; Shan., § 5500; Code 1932, § 9671; T.C.A

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

(1) Any person imprisoned or restrained of liberty, under any pretense whatsoever, except in cases specified in subsection (b) and in cases specified in § 29-21-102, may prosecute a writ of habeas corpus, to inquire into the cause of such imprisonment and restraint.

(2) Persons restrained of their liberty pursuant to a guilty plea and negotiated sentence are not entitled to the benefits of this writ on any claim that: The petitioner received concurrent sentencing where there was a statutory requirement for consecutive sentencing;

(3) The petitioner's sentence included a release eligibility percentage where the petitioner was not entitled to any early release; or

(4) The petitioner's sentence included a lower release eligibility percentage than the petitioner was entitled to under statutory requirements.

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.