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Resisting Arrest in Tennessee

By Baker Associates

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Tennessee criminal defense lawyers help clients with criminal charges in Knoxville, Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, Morristown, Maryville, Johnson City, and Chattanooga. The crime of resisting arrest occurs where a person intentionally prevents or obstructs a law enforcement officer from arresting any person by using force against the officer or another. According to Tennessee law, it is an offense for a person to intentionally prevent or obstruct anyone known to the person to be a law enforcement officer, or anyone acting in a law enforcement officer's presence and at the officer's direction, from effecting a stop, frisk, halt, arrest or search of any person, including the defendant, by using force against the law enforcement officer or another...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on October 17, 2008 (boomark / email).

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