15-13-101
Section 15-13-101 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) APPEARANCE BOND. An appearance bond is an undertaking to pay the clerk of the circuit, district, or municipal court, for the use of the State of Alabama or the municipality, a specified sum of money upon the failure of a person released to comply with its conditions. (2) JUDICIAL OFFICER. Any supreme court, appellate court, circuit court, district court, or municipal court judge or any magistrate of any court in this state. (3) PROFESSIONAL BAIL COMPANY. A person, individual proprietor, partnership, corporation, or other entity, other than a professional surety company, that furnishes bail or becomes surety for a person on an appearance bond and does so for a valuable consideration. (4) PROFESSIONAL BONDSMAN. An individual person or agent employed by a professional surety company or professional bail company to...
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15-14-52
Section 15-14-52 Definitions. Unless the context clearly requires otherwise or unless different meanings are expressly specified in subsequent provisions of this article, wherever used in this article, the following terms, whether used in the singular or plural shall be given the following respective interpretations: (1) PERSON. A human being, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association, a partnership, or other entity established by law, and/or a government or a governmental instrumentality, including, but not limited to, the State of Alabama or any political subdivision thereof. (2) CRIMINAL OFFENSE. Conduct which is alleged in any summons, complaint, warrant of arrest, information, presentment, or indictment and for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment, or the death penalty, or to a fine is provided by any law of this state or by any law, local law, or ordinance of a political subdivision of this state. (3) VICTIM. A person who is a victim of the defendant's...
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45-27-84.02
Section 45-27-84.02 Written request for extradition. (a) No demand for extradition of a tribal fugitive shall be recognized unless a written request is received by the district attorney. (b) The written request shall contain all of the following: (1) A sworn statement stating that the accused tribal fugitive was alleged to be present on the reservation at the time of the commission of the alleged crime and that the accused tribal fugitive is no longer on the reservation. (2) A copy of an arrest warrant issued for the accused tribal fugitive. (3) A copy of the conviction or sentence imposed, if applicable. (4) A sworn statement that the accused tribal fugitive has broken the terms of bail, probation, or parole, or has been charged with committing a specific offense under the laws of the tribe. (5) Any waiver of extradition validly executed as a bond condition or as a term or condition of parole or probation, if applicable. (6) Any identifying information that may assist law enforcement...
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15-13-81
Section 15-13-81 Conditional judgment - Entry; notice to defendant; execution and return of notice; alias notices. (a) When an undertaking of bail is forfeited by the failure of the defendant to appear as required, except when money is deposited instead of bail, a conditional judgment must be entered by the court in favor of the state against the parties to the undertaking for the sum thereon expressed, which judgment may be substantially as follows: The State) vs.) A.B.) Indictment for assault and battery (or other offense, as the case may be). It appearing to the court that the said A. B. together with C. D. and E. F. agreed to pay the State of Alabama _____ dollars (the sum specified in the undertaking) unless the said A. B. appeared at the time and place mentioned and fixed in the bond or undertaking to answer in this case; and the said A. B. having failed to appear at the time and place mentioned in the bond or undertaking, it is therefore ordered that the State of Alabama recover...
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12-25-38
Section 12-25-38 Revocation of post-release supervision status. (a) Offenders who fail to comply with the conditions of post-release supervision as specified by the Board of Pardons and Paroles may have their release status revoked. (b) At any time during the period of post-release supervision, the Board of Pardons and Paroles may issue a warrant and may cause the offender to be arrested for violating any of the conditions of post-release supervision. (c) Any probation officer, police officer, or other officer with power of arrest, when requested by the probation officer or other supervising officer, may arrest an offender under post-release supervision without a warrant. To arrest the offender without a warrant, the arresting officer shall have a written statement by the probation officer or other supervising officer declaring that the offender under post-release supervision, in his or her judgment, has violated the conditions of post-release supervision. The statement shall be...
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45-14-233
Section 45-14-233 Law enforcement authority of community corrections director and employees. (a) The Director of the Clay County Community Corrections Program and employees of the program shall constitute law enforcement officers of the State of Alabama with authority to make arrests and serve arrest and search warrants in the performance of their official duties to the same extent as deputy sheriffs are authorized and empowered in the counties, so long as he or she holds a current certification from the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission. The powers of arrest under this section shall be limited to investigations and arrests involving criminal acts committed at facilities of the program and acts committed by persons under their supervision which constitute a violation of supervision or the commission of a criminal offense. The program director or any community corrections employee with law enforcement authority may arrest any person under his or her supervision...
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12-14-71
Section 12-14-71 Appeals from judgments of circuit courts and proceedings thereon. From the judgment of the circuit court, the municipality, in a case holding invalid an ordinance, or the defendant in any case, may appeal to the court of criminal appeals in like manner as in cases of appeals for convictions of violation of the criminal laws of the state. If the appeal is taken by the municipality, it shall not be required to give surety for the cost of appeal. When taken by the defendant, he may give bail with sufficient sureties, conditioned that he will appear and abide by the judgment of the appellate court; and, failing to give bail, he must be committed to the municipal jail, but he may give such bail at any time pending the appeal. When an appeal is taken by the defendant, bail is given pending the appeal and the judgment of conviction is affirmed or the appeal is dismissed, the defendant is bound by the undertaking of bail to surrender himself to the municipal authorities within...
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15-13-111
Section 15-13-111 Kinds of bail. For persons arrested and taken into custody, there shall be four kinds of bail used in this state. No other form of bail may be approved and accepted by any judicial officer, court clerk, magistrate, or any other person designated to accept and approve bail as stipulated in Division 1, Sections 15-13-100 to 15-13-110, inclusive. The four kinds of bail shall be judicial public bail, cash bail, property bail, and professional surety bail. Their definitions are as follows: (1) CASH BAIL. Cash bail is when the defendant or some person on behalf of the defendant deposits cash in an amount equal to a part or the total sum of the bail as set by the judicial officer to the clerk of the court having jurisdiction over the case. Acceptance of cash bail shall conform to Division 9. (2) JUDICIAL PUBLIC BAIL. Judicial public bail is the release of any defendant without any condition of an undertaking relating to, or a deposit of, security. Such bail shall be granted...
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12-23A-5
Section 12-23A-5 Drug tests; screening; confidentiality of information; criteria for participation. (a) Any drug offender subject to this chapter who posts bail shall submit to random observed drug tests as a condition of pretrial release. (b) A drug offender shall be required to undergo a screening under any of the following conditions: (1) The results of a drug test are positive. (2) The drug offender requests a screening. (3) The drug offender admits to substance use or abuse within the year preceding the arrest for the present charge. (4) The present charge involves a violation of the controlled substances or impaired driving statutes. (5) The drug offender, within the previous five years, has been convicted in any state or federal court involving a violation described in subsection (b)(1), (b)(3), or (b)(4). (6) The drug offender refuses to undergo a drug test as required by this chapter. (c) Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection (a), the court shall order a drug offender...
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12-25-32
Section 12-25-32 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) COMMISSION. The Alabama Sentencing Commission, established as a state agency under the Supreme Court by this chapter. (2) CONTINUUM OF PUNISHMENTS. An array of punishment options, from probation to incarceration, graduated in restrictiveness according to the degree of supervision of the offender including, but not limited to, all of the following: a. Active Incarceration. A sentence, other than an intermediate punishment or unsupervised probation, that requires an offender to serve a sentence of imprisonment. The term includes time served in a work release program operated as a custody option by the Alabama Department of Corrections or in the Supervised Intensive Restitution program of the Department of Corrections pursuant to Article 7, commencing with Section 15-18-110, of Chapter 18 of Title 15. b. Intermediate Punishment. A sentence that may include assignment to any...
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