The district public defender is authorized to employ, reassign, or contract with individuals utilizing special funds appropriated solely for the purpose of providing prompt and fair adjudication of post-conviction proceedings in capital sentence cases, including authority to assign the additional personnel the duties of personnel reassigned to the post-conviction cases. In no event shall the employment, contract, or expenditures under this authority extend beyond a two-year period.
Special personnel for expedition of post-conviction proceedings in capital cases
Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-14-111, under District Public Defenders and Investigators.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-14-111