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Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-11-407

Defenses excluded

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case State v. Forbes (1995)

Most recently applied in State v. Hawk (August 2005)

Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.

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In a prosecution in which a person's criminal responsibility is based upon the conduct of another, the person may be convicted on proof of commission of the offense and that the person was a party to or facilitated its commission, and it is no defense that:

(1) The other belongs to a class of persons who by definition of the offense is legally incapable of committing the offense in an individual capacity; or

(2) The person for whose conduct the defendant is criminally responsible has been acquitted, has not been prosecuted or convicted, has been convicted of a different offense or different type or class of offense, or is immune from prosecution.

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.