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Pretrial Diversion - Tennessee Law

By Baker Associates

Tennessee criminal defense lawyers help clients charged with traffic violations, misdemeanors, and complicated felonies. All cases are different so different defenses and strategies are employed. Depending on the circumstances, the defendant in a criminal case will often attempt to divert prosecution in his or her case. According to Tennessee law, a qualified defendant may agree with the state to suspend prosecution for a specific period of time. It is important to stress that the state and defendant must agree to suspend prosecution, and that pretrial diversion will not happen for all qualified defendants. The agreement is done by what?s known as a memorandum of understanding. The prosecution can be suspended up to a maximum of two years once the memorandum of understanding is filed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on December 18, 2007 (boomark / email).