This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Criminal Sentencing Reform Act of 1989.”
Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-35-101
Short title
Known as the Tennessee Criminal Sentencing Reform Act
The act spans §§ 40–40 (69 sections).
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case United States v. Jones (2006)
Most recently applied in Danny A. Stewart v. Derrick D. Schofield, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction (May 2012)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 6.
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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.
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