2010 Tennessee Code
Title 40 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 18 - Trial and Verdict
40-18-116 - Sequestration of jurors.
40-18-116. Sequestration of jurors.
In all criminal prosecutions, except those in which a death sentence may be rendered, jurors shall only be sequestered at the sound discretion of the trial judge, which shall prohibit the jurors from separating at times when they are not engaged upon actual trial or deliberation of the case.
[Acts 1965, ch. 47, § 1; 1975, ch. 49, § 1; T.C.A., § 40-2528; Acts 1995, ch. 43, § 1; 2002, ch. 741, § 1.]
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