A person may not use physical force to resist a lawful arrest by a law enforcement officer who is known or reasonably appears to be a law enforcement officer.
Ala. Code § 13A-3-28
Use of Force in Resisting Arrest Prohibited.
Known as the Alabama Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 13A-10-1 to 13A-9-92 (653 sections).
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case State v. Wiegmann (1998)
Most recently applied in 915 F. Supp. 2d 1246 - Morris v. Town of Lexington (January 2013)
(Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §635; Act 2025-423, §3.)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.