{"id":254,"date":"2017-01-13T09:34:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T09:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/?p=254"},"modified":"2022-05-30T08:54:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T08:54:23","slug":"new-tn-law-takes-probation-off-table-for-vehicular-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/new-tn-law-takes-probation-off-table-for-vehicular-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"New TN Law Takes Probation Off Table for Vehicular Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"254\" class=\"elementor elementor-254\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-329a198f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"329a198f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-35374ddd\" data-id=\"35374ddd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66222ab1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"66222ab1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure id=\"attachment_7721\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7721\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7721\" src=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2017\/01\/Thornton-car-after-wreck-web-version.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vehicle in which Stacy Thornton and her children, Gage and Maddie Belt, were riding when they were hit by a drunk driver in 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>A new law in Tennessee is tougher on offenders and supports victims by providing greater justice in Vehicular Homicide cases. The law eliminates the option for judges to sentence an offender in a Vehicular Homicide case to a term of probation and is effective for any crash beginning January 1, 2017. For more information, <a class=\"text-red\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/story\/34175821\/new-law-says-offenders-can-no-longer-receive-probation-in-drunken-driving-deaths\">click the news story from WSMV<\/a>.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new law in Tennessee is tougher on offenders and supports victims by providing greater justice in Vehicular Homicide cases. The law eliminates the option for judges to sentence an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/new-tn-law-takes-probation-off-table-for-vehicular-homicide\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New TN Law Takes Probation Off Table for Vehicular Homicide<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[15,6,7],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-legislation","tag-drugged-driving","tag-drunk-driving","tag-impaired-driving","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New TN Law Takes Probation Off Table for Vehicular Homicide - Affiliate Tennessee<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/new-tn-law-takes-probation-off-table-for-vehicular-homicide\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New TN Law Takes Probation Off Table for Vehicular Homicide - Affiliate Tennessee\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new law in Tennessee is tougher on offenders and supports victims by providing greater justice in Vehicular Homicide cases. 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