TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Jan 30, 2020

The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a criminal trial court lacks authority to partially vacate its own order dismissing criminal prosecutions once the order becomes final. The court also acknowledged that the defendant at the center of the opinion had identified several ambiguities in the Tennessee Sexual Offender Registration, Verification, and Tracking Act concerning how persons who commit sexual offenses in other states should be classified as sexual offenders or violent sexual offenders in Tennessee. The Supreme Court urged the state legislature to clarify these ambiguities. Read the unanimous opinion authored by Justice Cornelia A. Clark.