In a case from Sevierville, the Court of Criminal Appeals has confirmed a DUI conviction in which the city officer continued observing a car and pulled it over 6 tenths of a mile beyond the city limit.
This is different from a fresh pursuit case, which has it's own jurisdictional case law. In this one Officer Stone had seen some lane violations and some speeding in the city, but did not pull it over until it crossed the fog line outside the city. The Court found that a city officer has a mile boundary area that is within his jurisdiction in a violation of general law. By statute this does not apply to speeding. Congratulations to prosecutor George Ioannides
. Read the case at:
http://www.tsc.state.tn.us/OPINIONS/Tcca/PDF/101/State%20v%20Suzanne%20Burkhart.pdf
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