(a) A person commits an offense who:

Attorney's Note

Under the Tennessee Code, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
class C felony3 to 15 yearsup to $10,000
For details, see Tenn. Code § 40-35-111
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 39-16-108

  • Benefit: means anything reasonably regarded as economic gain, enhancement or advantage, including benefit to any other person in whose welfare the beneficiary is interested. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
  • Juror: means any person who is a member of any jury, including a grand jury, impaneled by any court of this state or by any public servant authorized by law to impanel a jury. See Tennessee Code 39-16-101
  • Juror: A person who is on the jury.
  • Pecuniary benefit: means benefit in the form of money, property, commercial interests or anything else, the primary significance of which is economic gain. See Tennessee Code 39-16-101
  • Person: includes the singular and the plural and means and includes any individual, firm, partnership, copartnership, association, corporation, governmental subdivision or agency, or other organization or other legal entity, or any agent or servant thereof. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(1) Offers, confers or agrees to confer any pecuniary benefit upon a juror with the intent that the juror‘s vote, opinion, decision or other action as a juror will be corruptly influenced; or
(2) Solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any pecuniary benefit upon any agreement or understanding that the juror’s vote, opinion, decision or other action as a juror will be corruptly influenced.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to nullify or repeal any contempt power of any judge of any court of this state.
(c) Bribing a juror is a Class C felony.