45-35-232.20
Section 45-35-232.20 Work release for gainful employment conducive to rehabilitation. A person who has been sentenced or committed to the county jail in Houston County, from a city court, district court, circuit court, or other court with appropriate jurisdiction, under a criminal sentence, including a person sentenced to a state prison or into the custody of the Department of Corrections who has been deemed not to be a threat to the community and who has not been transferred to a Department of Corrections' facility may be released at the discretion of the sentencing court, either on its motion or upon the motion of the defendant, at the time of sentence or at any time during the term of sentence, for the purpose of obtaining and working at gainful employment or for other purposes as the court may deem conducive to rehabilitation, for such time or intervals of time and under the terms and conditions as the court may order. Any part of a day spent outside of jail under a release order...
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45-39-80.20
Section 45-39-80.20 Jury strike system. Upon the trial by jury in the circuit courts of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of any person indicted for a misdemeanor, or a felony not punished capitally, or upon appeals to the circuit courts from lower courts, the court shall require two lists of all the regular jurors empaneled for the week who are competent to try the defendant to be made, and the district attorney shall be required to strike from the list the name of one juror, and the defendant shall strike one, and they shall continue to strike off names alternately until only 12 jurors remain on the list, and these 12 jurors thus selected shall be the jury charged with the trial of the case. (Act 81-127, p. 148, §1.)...
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13A-5-53.1
Section 13A-5-53.1 Appeals of capital punishment. (a) Rule 32.2(c) of the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure shall not apply to cases in which a criminal defendant is convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, and files a petition for post-conviction relief under the grounds specified in Rule 32.1(a), (e), or (f) of the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure. (b) Post-conviction remedies sought pursuant to Rule 32 of the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure in death penalty cases shall be pursued concurrently and simultaneously with the direct appeal of a case in which the death penalty was imposed. In all cases where the defendant is deemed indigent or as the trial judge deems appropriate, the trial court, within 30 days of the entry of the order pronouncing the defendant's death sentence, shall appoint the defendant a separate counsel for the purposes of post-conviction relief under this section. Appointed counsel shall be compensated pursuant to Chapter 12 of Title 15;...
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45-37A-331.06
Section 45-37A-331.06 Order of municipal court; judicial review. (a) Following an adjudicative hearing, the municipal court judge shall issue an order stating: (1) Whether the person charged with the civil violation is liable for the violation; and, if so (2) The amount of the civil fine assessed against the person, along with the fees and costs of court provided for herein. (b) The orders issued under this section may be filed in the office of the Judge of Probate of Jefferson County, Alabama, and shall operate as a judicial lien in the same manner and with the same weight and effect as any other civil judgment filed therein. (c) A person who is found liable after an adjudicative hearing may appeal that finding of civil liability to the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, by filing a notice of appeal with the clerk of the municipal court. The notice of appeal shall be filed not later than the 14th day after the date on which the municipal court judge entered the finding of...
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45-41A-41.06
Section 45-41A-41.06 Order of municipal court; judicial review. (a) Following an adjudicative hearing, the municipal court judge shall issue an order stating: (1) Whether the person charged with the civil violation is liable for the violation. (2) If charged with a civil violation the amount of the civil fine assessed against the person, along with the fees and costs of court provided for herein. (b) The orders issued under this section may be filed in the office of the Judge of Probate of Lee County, Alabama, and shall operate as a judicial lien in the same manner and with the same weight and effect as any other civil judgment filed therein. (c) A person who is found liable after an adjudicative hearing may appeal that finding of civil liability to the Circuit Court of Lee County, Alabama, by filing a notice of appeal with the clerk of the municipal court. The notice of appeal must be filed not later than the 14th day after the date on which the municipal court judge entered the...
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15-13-107
Section 15-13-107 Who may or shall accept, take, and approve bail and under what circumstances. (a) Judges of any court within the State of Alabama may accept, take, and approve bail within the jurisdiction of their respective courts. (b) Circuit, district, and municipal court clerks, including magistrates, may accept, take, and approve bail within the jurisdiction of their respective courts. (c) Only judicial officers and circuit, district, and municipal court clerks or a designee of the court may accept and approve appeal bonds and cash bonds. Provided, however, that any person designated by the court to receive cash bonds, shall be bonded to receive court moneys and have the written approval of their chief administrative officer. Clerks of the courts of Alabama may delegate to their employees the right to accept and approve appeal bonds and cash bonds. (d) Sheriffs of the state and chiefs of police having custody of a defendant may accept, take, and approve property or professional...
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15-25-3
Section 15-25-3 Prosecution for physical or sexual offense or exploitation involving child under age 16 - Use of closed circuit equipment; competence of victim as witness. (a) In those criminal prosecutions set out in Section 15-25-1, the court, on motion of the state or the defendant prior to the trial of the case, may order that the testimony of any alleged victim of the crime or witness thereto who is under the age of 16 at the time of the order shall be viewed and heard at trial by the court and the finder of fact by closed circuit equipment. In ruling on the motion the court shall take into consideration those matters set out in Section 15-25-2. (b) If the court orders that the victim's or witness's testimony in court shall be by closed circuit equipment, the testimony shall be taken outside the courtroom in the judge's chambers or in another suitable location designated by the judge. (c) Examination and cross-examination of the alleged child victim or witness shall proceed as...
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11-41-26
Section 11-41-26 Rendition of decree of forfeiture and dissolution; appeal from same. If, upon such hearing, it shall appear that one of the grounds of forfeiture enumerated in section 11-41-24 exists, the probate judge shall render a decree declaring such charter forfeited and such municipality dissolved, and from any decree rendered under this section any citizen of the town or person filing such petition may appeal to the circuit court upon giving bond for cost of such appeal. (Acts 1919, No. 517, p. 739; Code 1923, §2332; Code 1940, T. 37, §23.)...
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12-17-94
Section 12-17-94 Duties generally. (a) The duties of the clerks of the circuit court include all of the following: (1) To sign and issue all summons, subpoenas, writs, executions, and other processes, under the authority of the court. (2) To keep a consolidated docket sheet of civil and criminal cases, the names of the parties, the character of action or offense, the names of the attorneys and the sheriff's return, which shall be entered in all civil and criminal cases standing for trial, in the order in which they are brought, and the bench notes, orders, rulings on motions and pleadings, other preliminary matters and final judgment which have been made in each case by the judge, which shall be the official minutes. (3) To keep all papers, books, dockets, and records belonging to their office with care and security, with the papers filed, arranged, numbered, and labeled, so as to be of easy reference, and the books, dockets and records properly lettered. Parties shall be allowed to...
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15-12-23
Section 15-12-23 Appointment and compensation of counsel - Post-conviction proceedings. (a) In proceedings filed in the district or circuit court involving the life and liberty of those charged with or convicted of serious criminal offenses including proceedings for habeas corpus or other post-conviction remedies, the trial or presiding judge or chief justice of the court in which the proceedings may be commenced or pending may appoint counsel through an indigent defense system approved by the office to represent and assist indigent defendants if it appears to the court that the indigent defendant is unable financially or otherwise to obtain the assistance of counsel and desires the assistance of counsel and it further appears that counsel is necessary in the opinion of the judge to assert or protect the right of the indigent defendant. (b) In proceedings filed in the district or circuit court involving the life and liberty of those persons charged or adjudicated for juvenile offenses...
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