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Homicide - Second Degree Murder - Knowing Killing - Tennessee Law

By Baker Associates

The criminal defense attorneys at Baker Associates have successfully represented individuals charged with homicide offenses in Tennessee. Criminal homicide is the unlawful killing of another person. Under Tennessee law, criminal homicide is broken down into five classifications: First Degree Murder, Second Degree Murder, Voluntary Manslaughter, Crminally Negligent Homicide, and Vehicular Homicide. Tennessee Code Annotated § 39-13-210(a) defines Second Degree Murder as: (1) A knowing killing of another; or (2) A killing of another that results from the unlawful distribution of any Schedule I or Schedule II drug, when the drug is the proximate cause of the death of the user. Additionally, subsection (b) further states that in a prosecution for second degree murder, if the defendant knowingly engages in multiple incidents of domestic abuse, assault or the infliction of bodily injury against a single victim, the trier of fact (i...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on November 10, 2008 (boomark / email).