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1988 Tennessee Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1988)

handle is hein.sag/sagtn0075 and id is 1 raw text is: OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TENNESSEE Published by Authority of Chapter 276 Public Acts of 1971 May 1988 88-98 ALCOHOL: It would violate the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy to retry a defendant on a second-degree murder count when he is indicted for this and vehicular homicide based on the same incident, involving a single death, and the jury convicts him of vehicular homicide, but a mistrial is declared on the second-degree murder count. U.S. Const. amend V; T.C.A. SS39-2-21, -231. 88-103 ANINALS: Fines collected for violations relating to cockfighting should be paid over to such society making application for those funds as they should inure to such society in aid of the purpose for which it was incorporated. T.C.A. SS5-8-401, -402, -403, 18-1-108, 18-2-102, 39-3-105, -111, -115. 88-100 ATTORNEYS: Statute provides for the appointment of only one attorney each year to collect all delinquent taxes shown on the delinquent lists prepared for that year regardless of whether the county has two Register of Deed offices. T.C.A. SS67-5-2402, -2404, -2410. 88-105 ATTORNEYS: A legislator/attorney or member of his firm may receive attorneys fee awards from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund, Defense Counsel Commission, Civil Service Commission, and from the State in federal civil rights actions and other similar actions without violating the conflict of interest statute. Neither a legislator/attorney nor a member of his firm may contract with the state to provide legal services; however, contracts with the state which predate the legislator/attorney's becoming a state official need not be relinquished. 42 U.S.C. S1988; T.C.A. S-6-106, 8-42-103, 9-6-118, 12-4-101, 29-13-112, -116, 40-24-107, 40-28-201.