TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 22, 2019
In a recently released opinion, the Tennessee Supreme Court held that a trial court should not have considered the constitutionality of the Public Safety Act prior to entering two defendants’ guilty pleas. In State of Tennessee v. A.B. Price, Jr. and Victor Sims, the court remanded the matter to the trial court for entry of amended judgments compliant with the Public Safety Act, a law that had just gone into effect at the time of the cases of the two unrelated defendants. Chief Justice Jeff Bivins authored the court's opinion.