39-13-217 - Priority in case docketing. - Tennessee Statutes

39-13-217. Priority in case docketing.

The trial and appellate courts of this state shall give first priority in docketing to cases where the state has given notice of intent to seek the death penalty pursuant to Rule 12.3(b) of the Rules of Criminal Procedure, or the defendant has been sentenced to death.

[Acts 1995, ch. 338, § 1.]