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Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-6-305

Interception of communications for evidence of certain crimes

Known as the Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act

The act spans §§ 40–40 (38 sections).

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case State v. Moore (2009)

Most recently applied in State of Tennessee v. Jeffrey Kristopher King and Kasey Lynn King (September 2013)

Acts 1994, ch. 964, § 6; 1996, ch. 680, § 1; 2011, ch. 493, § 1; 2015, ch. 435, § 1.

A district attorney general may apply to a judge of competent jurisdiction for, and the judge may grant, in conformity with § 40-6-304, an order authorizing the interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications by investigative or law enforcement officers having responsibility for the investigation of the offense as to which the application is made when interception may provide evidence of:

(1) The commission of criminal homicide, as defined in § 39-13-201;

(2) Criminal conspiracy, as defined in § 39-12-103, to commit criminal homicide;

(3) The commission of a violation of § 39-17-417(j);

(4) The commission of, or conspiracy to commit, a criminal gang offense by a criminal gang member, as defined in § 40-35-121; or

(5) The commission of trafficking a person for a commercial sex act, as defined in § 39-13-309.

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.