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Facilitating Escape Charges Dismissed Against Former Brushy Mountain Corrections Officer

By Baker Associates

A former Brushy Mountain corrections officer was acquitted last Wednesday of recklessly facilitating the escape of George Hyatte. In the case against the officer, the state?s attorney alleged that the corrections officer made two phone calls to Mr. Hyatte?s spouse and, while speaking to her, he informed her about lax security conditions at the Roane County Courthouse. While these actions were clear violations of Tennessee Department of Correction?s Policy, the facts did not amount to criminal conduct, according to Judge Eblen. Why not? According to T.C.A. 39-16-607, an official of a prison who recklessly facilitates the escape of a person charged with a felony commits a Class C felony. Essentially, a person acts recklessly with respect to facilitation of escape when he consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that escape will result from his conduct...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).