Criminal responsibility for facilitation of felony
Applied in 33 court decisions — leading case United States v. Bradley (2005)
Most recently applied in United States v. Al Dorsey (January 2024)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.
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) A person is criminally responsible for the facilitation of a felony, if, knowing that another intends to commit a specific felony, but without the intent required for criminal responsibility under § 39-11-402(2), the person knowingly furnishes substantial assistance in the commission of the felony.
(2) The facilitation of the commission of a felony is an offense of the class next below the felony facilitated by the person so charged.
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.