(1) A person commits the offense of false imprisonment who knowingly removes or confines another unlawfully so as to interfere substantially with the other's liberty.
(2) False imprisonment is a Class A misdemeanor.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-302
False imprisonment
Applied in 22 court decisions — leading case In Re Audrey S. (2005)
Most recently applied in State of Tennessee v. Antonio Henderson (October 2017)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; T.C.A., § 39-13-303; Acts 1990, ch. 982, § 1.
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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.