The Tennessee attorney general will let stand a ruling striking down the state's gang enhancement law as unconstitutional.
Harlow Sumerford, spokesman for Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III, said Wednesday the office will not seek a Tennessee Supreme Court review of a decision in April by a lower appellate court declaring the law constitutionally unsound.
Slatery's decision comes after the state Legislature quickly passed a new version of the law, which boosts penalties for crimes committed by alleged gang members, in the wake of the Court of Criminal Appeals ruling.
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