Correspondence from Tigue to Davis Re: Amendment SB741

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( AMENDMENT NO.

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Signature of Sponsor

AMEND Senate Bill No. 741 House Bill No. 417

by deleting Section 1 in its entirety and substituting instead 
the following:

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 40-7-108, 
is amended by deleting the section in its entirety and 
substituting instead the following:

(a) If, after notice of the intention to 
arrest the defendant, he either flees or forcibly 
resists, the officer may use all necessary means 
to effect the arrest.

(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), deadly 
force is authorized to effect an arrest only if all 
other reasonable means of apprehension have been 
exhausted, and, where feasible, some warning has 
been given the defendant, and:

(1) The officer has probable cause to 
believe the defendant has committed a felony 
involving the infliction or threatened in­
fliction of serious physical harm, or

(2) The officer has probable cause to 
believe that the defendant poses a threat of 
serious physical harm, either to the officer 
or to others unless he is immediately appre­
hended.

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W. J.  M I C H A E L  C O D Y  

a t t o r n e y  g e n e r a l  a r e p o r t e r

J O H N  K N O X  W A L K U P  
C H IE F  D E P U T Y  A T T O R N E Y  G E N E R A L

W I L L I A M  H.  F A R M E R  
A D V O C A T E  G E N E R A L

J I M M Y  G .  C R E E C Y  
A S S O C I A T E  C H IE F  D E P U T Y

R O B E R T  A.  G R U N O W  
A S S O C I A T E  C H IE F  D E P U T Y

O F F I C E  O F  T H E  A T T O R N E Y  G E N E R A L  

A 5 0  JAMES Ro b e r t s o n  P a r k w a y  

N a s h v i l l e . T e n n e s s e e  3 7 31 9 -5 0 3 5

April 8, 1985

d e p u t y  a t t o r n e y s  g e n e r a l  

D O U G L A S  B E R R Y  

D O N A L D  L. C O R L E W  
P A T R I C I A  J.  C O T T R E L L  

R . S T E P H E N  d o u g h t y  

K A T E  E Y L E R  
R O B E R T  E. K E N D R I C K  

C H A R L E S  L. L E W I S  

F R A N K  J .  S C A N L O N  

J E N N I F E R  H.  S M A L L  

J E R R Y  L  S M I T H  
J O H N  F. S O U T H W O R T H ,  J R .

Representative Michael D. Murphy 
Chairman, House Judiciary Committee 
Suite 32, Legislative Plaza 
Nashville, Tennessee 37219
Dear Chairman Murphy;

As per your reguest for this office to draft a 
bill or amendment to T.C.A. § 40-7-108 to make that 
statute comply with the case of Tennessee v^ Garne_r, 
please find enclosed herewith a bill drafted in response 
to a similar request by Senator Steve Cohen and Represen­
tative Joe Kent. This office believes that the attached 
proposed legislation will bring Tennessee statutory law 
into full compliance with the Garner decision.

Sincerely,

W. J. MICHAEL CODY Attorney General and Reporter

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