Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-502

Aggravated rape

Applied in 38 court decisions — leading case State v. Hill (1997)

Most recently applied in Ivan Valdez Amador v. Merrick Garland (March 2022)

Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; 1990, ch. 980, § 3; 1992, ch. 878, § 3.

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(1) Aggravated rape is unlawful sexual penetration of a victim by the defendant or the defendant by a victim accompanied by any of the following circumstances: Force or coercion is used to accomplish the act and the defendant is armed with a weapon or any article used or fashioned in a manner to lead the victim reasonably to believe it to be a weapon;

(2) The defendant causes bodily injury to the victim;

(3) The defendant is aided or abetted by one (1) or more other persons; and Force or coercion is used to accomplish the act; or

(4) The defendant knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally defective, mentally incapacitated or physically helpless.

(5) Aggravated rape is a Class A felony.

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.