{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-39-16-602","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-16-602","heading":"Resisting stop, frisk, halt, arrest or search - Prevention or obstruction of service of legal writ or process","body":"(a) It is an offense for a person to intentionally prevent or obstruct anyone known to the person to be a law enforcement officer, or anyone acting in a law enforcement officer's presence and at the officer's direction, from effecting a stop, frisk, halt, arrest or search of any person, including the defendant, by using force against the law enforcement officer or another.\n(b) Except as provided in § 39-11-611 , it is no defense to prosecution under this section that the stop, frisk, halt, arrest or search was unlawful.\n(c) It is an offense for a person to intentionally prevent or obstruct an officer of the state or any other person known to be a civil process server in serving, or attempting to serve or execute, any legal writ or process.\n(d) A violation of this section is a Class B misdemeanor unless the defendant uses a deadly weapon to resist the stop, frisk, halt, arrest, search or process server, in which event the violation is a Class A misdemeanor.","path":["TN Code","Title 39","Chapter 16"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:26Z","sha256":"4147d2816e81e7446e7fa973cfd9ad4704e638a3d61663cf0fd5d2a2ef05c4f8","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-39-16-601","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-39-16-603"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}