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Criminal Responsibility in Tennessee

By Baker Associates

Tennessee law recognizes that some crimes require the cooperation of more than one person in order to be completed successfully. For example, a successful bank robbery may need a couple of guys to actually go in and rob the bank and then another guy to drive the getaway car, etc. Likewise, there are instances where several people are cooperating in some sort of criminal conduct and then one of them goes too far, injuring or killing an innocent victim. In situations such as these, Tennessee uses the theory of criminal responsibility to charge everyone involved in the commission of the crime as if they had committed the most serious criminal act that was committed during the course of the criminal conduct. For example, if four men cooperate in a bank robbery and one of them shoots and kills a security guard, then all four men will be charged with first degree felony murder with three of the men being so charged via the doctrine of criminal responsibility...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on July 07, 2010 (boomark / email).