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Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-11-612

Defense of third person

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 204 W. Va. 591 - State v. Cook (1999)

Most recently applied in State of Tennessee v. Ledarren S. Hawkins (June 2013)

Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.

A person is justified in threatening or using force against another to protect a third person, if:

(1) Under the circumstances as the person reasonably believes them to be, the person would be justified under § 39-11-611 in threatening or using force to protect against the use or attempted use of unlawful force reasonably believed to be threatening the third person sought to be protected; and

(2) The person reasonably believes that the intervention is immediately necessary to protect the third person.

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.