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House adopts amendment to require prosecutor review before recalling decade‑old municipal misdemeanor warrants
Summary
The Alabama House adopted a floor amendment to Senate Bill 82 that requires a prosecuting attorney and city judge to review long‑standing municipal misdemeanor warrants before a recall order may be entered; the amendment passed 70–3.
The Alabama House took up Senate Bill 82, a criminal-procedure bill that grew out of a single case and would have allowed certain misdemeanors to be removed from records after a 10-year period. Lawmakers adopted a floor amendment that requires the prosecuting attorney (often a city attorney) to review outstanding warrants alongside a city judge before an order recalling a warrant may be entered; the amendment passed 70–3.
Representative Ron Hill (chairman identified on the floor as Judge Hill in remarks) explained the amendment: "What this amendment does is it allows the district attorney or the prosecuting attorney and the city judge to look through the these warrants to determine if it's gonna be recalled and then the judge to actually enter the order recalling…
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