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Evading Arrest under Tennessee Law

By Baker Associates

Tennessee criminal defense lawyers handle all types of cases including evading arrest charges. It is important to contact a competent, diligent, and experienced defense attorney once you have been charged with any crime. Our criminal defense lawyers defend clients from traffic citations to complicated felony matters in the East Tennessee area. Most of the time, a charge of evading arrest will accompany some other criminal charge. There are actually two types of evading arrest offenses under Tennessee law. You could be charged with either felony evading arrest or misdemeanor evading arrest. The difference between the two evading arrest offenses depends upon how you attempt to flee. The misdemeanor evading arrest statute states that it is unlawful for any person to intentionally flee by any means of locomotion from anyone the person knows to be a law enforcement officer if the person: ? Knows the officer is attempting to arrest the person; or ? Has been arrested...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on March 18, 2008 (boomark / email).