31-2A-52
Section 31-2A-52 (Article 52.) Number of votes required. (a) No person may be convicted of an offense except as provided in Section 31-2A-45(b) (Article 45(b)) or by the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at the time the vote is taken. (b) All other questions to be decided by the members of a general or special court-martial shall be determined by a majority vote, but a determination to reconsider a finding of guilty or to reconsider a sentence, with a view toward decreasing it, may be made by any lesser vote which indicates that the reconsideration is not opposed by the number of votes required for that finding or sentence. A tie vote on a challenge disqualifies the member challenged. A tie vote on a motion relating to the question of the accused's sanity is a determination against the accused. A tie vote on any other question is a determination in favor of the accused. (c) Pursuant to its authority under Article XV, Section 271 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901,...
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31-2A-72
Section 31-2A-72 (Article 72.) Vacation of suspension. (a) Before the vacation of the suspension of a special court-martial sentence, which as approved includes a bad-conduct discharge, or of any general court-martial sentence, the officer having special court-martial jurisdiction over the probationer shall hold a hearing on an alleged violation of probation. The probationer shall be represented at the hearing by military counsel if the probationer so desires. (b) The record of the hearing and the recommendation of the officer having special court-martial jurisdiction shall be sent for action to the officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction over the probationer. If the officer vacates the suspension, any unexecuted part of the sentence, except a dismissal, shall be executed, subject to applicable restrictions in this code. (c) The suspension of any other sentence may be vacated by any authority competent to convene, for the command in which the accused is serving or...
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32-5A-195
Section 32-5A-195 Cancellation, suspension, or revocation of driver's license; grounds, procedure, etc. (a) The Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency is authorized to cancel any driver's license upon determining that the licensee was not entitled to the issuance thereof or that the licensee failed to give the correct or required information in his or her application. Upon such cancellation, the licensee must surrender the license so cancelled. If the licensee refuses to surrender the license, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) The privilege of driving a motor vehicle on the highways of this state given to a nonresident shall be subject to suspension or revocation by the Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency in like manner and for like cause as a driver's license issued may be suspended or revoked. (c) The Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency is further authorized, upon receiving a record of the conviction in this state of a...
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34-12-9
Section 34-12-9 Licenses - Revocation; administrative fines; reissuance; replacement of lost license. The board may revoke the license of any registrant who is found guilty by the board of gross negligence, incompetency, or misconduct in the practice of forestry. The board may discipline its licensees by the imposition and collection of an administrative fine set by the board not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000) per violation, and may institute any legal proceeding necessary to effect compliance with the chapter. All administrative fines collected by the board shall be deposited in the State Treasury in the "Professional Foresters Fund." The board may designate a person or persons to investigate and report to it upon any charges of fraud, deceit, gross negligence, incompetency, or other misconduct in connection with any forestry practice against any registrant, as may come to its attention. Any person or persons so designated by the board shall receive the same compensation and...
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43-8-21
Section 43-8-21 Venue; multiple proceedings; transfer. (a) Where a proceeding under this chapter could be maintained in more than one place in this state, the court in which the proceeding is first commenced has the exclusive right to proceed. (b) If proceedings concerning the same estate are commenced in more than one court of this state, the court in which the proceeding was first commenced shall continue to hear the matter, and the other courts shall hold the matter in abeyance until the question of venue is decided, and if the ruling court determines that venue is properly in another court, it shall transfer the proceeding to the other court. (c) If the court finds that in the interest of justice a proceeding or a file should be located in another court of this state, the court making the finding may transfer the proceeding or file to the other court. (Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §1-303.)...
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12-14-70
Section 12-14-70 Appeals to circuit courts from judgments of municipal courts and proceedings thereon. (a) All appeals from judgments of municipal courts shall be to the circuit court of the circuit in which the violation occurred for trial de novo. (b) The municipality may appeal within 60 days, without bond, from a judgment of the municipal court holding an ordinance invalid. (c) A defendant may appeal in any case within 14 days from the entry of judgment by filing notice of appeal and giving bond, with or without surety, approved by the court or the clerk in an amount not more than twice the amount of the fine and costs, as fixed by the court, or in the event no fine is levied the bond shall be in an amount not to exceed $1,000.00, as fixed by the court, conditioned upon the defendant's appearance before the circuit court. The municipal court may waive appearance bond upon satisfactory showing that the defendant is indigent or otherwise unable to provide a surety bond. If an appeal...
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12-15-208
Section 12-15-208 Facilities to be used for detention or shelter care of children generally; when child may be detained in jail or other facility for detention of adults; notification of juvenile court, when child received at facility for detention of adult offenders or persons charged with crimes; development of statewide system; Department of Youth Services to subsidize detention in regional facilities, may contract for detention; transfer of child to detention facility, when case transferred from juvenile court for criminal prosecution. (a) Persons who shall not be detained or confined in secure custody include all of the following: (1) STATUS OFFENDERS. Effective October 1, 2009, status offenders, as defined in this article, shall not be detained or confined in secure custody, except that a status offender who is charged with or who commits a violation of a valid court order may be detained in secure custody in a juvenile detention facility for up to 72 hours in any six-month...
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12-15-213
Section 12-15-213 Children charged with delinquent acts or alleged to be in need of supervision to be accorded privilege against self-incrimination; admissibility in evidence of extrajudicial statements of children and evidence illegally seized or obtained; double jeopardy. (a) A child charged with a delinquent act or who is alleged to be in need of supervision shall be accorded the rights and privileges afforded by the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Alabama of 1901. (b) An extrajudicial statement which would be constitutionally inadmissible in a criminal proceeding may not be received in evidence over objection. Evidence illegally seized or obtained may not be received in evidence over objection to establish the allegations against the child. An extrajudicial admission or confession made by the child out of court is insufficient to support a finding that the child committed the acts alleged in the petition unless it is corroborated by other evidence. (c)...
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12-22-198
Section 12-22-198 Appeals from denial of petition or where parts of record ordered transcribed deemed inadequate. (a) Any defendant or petitioner who has filed a petition under the provisions of this division and which petition is denied by the trial court, or if parts of the record ordered to be transcribed are deemed to be inadequate by defendant or petitioner, said defendant or petitioner may, within 10 days from the order of the trial court, file a notice of appeal with the clerk of the trial court from the order denying the petition or from the order deemed inadequate in specifying the parts of the transcript of the evidence to be forwarded to the appellate court on appeal, and such notice of appeal shall specify with particularity wherein the defendant or petitioner considers himself aggrieved by the order of the trial court, whereupon the trial judge shall cause to be certified and transmitted, to the Court of Criminal Appeals in cases wherein the punishment is 20 years or less...
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15-13-114
Section 15-13-114 Obligation of sureties continues during trial. The obligation of the sureties continues throughout every stage of trial, from the time the defendant is entered thereon until the rendition of the verdict by the jury or judge. The finding of the defendant guilty by a jury or judge discharges the sureties. The obligation of the sureties are also discharged when the judge takes any of the following actions: (1) Sentences the defendant. (2) Grants the prosecutor's motion to nol pros the case. (3) Dismisses the case. (4) Issuance of any order to the defendant to attend driving-under-the-influence school, mental health counseling, or any similar order of which the court would only have had the authority to do so, if there had been an adjudication of guilt or in cases where there has been an adjudication of guilt. (5) Issuance of any order of restitution. (6) Announcement or order of sentence prior to any probation determination. (Acts 1993, No. 93-677, p. 1259, §15.)...
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