Each person indicted for an offense punishable under the provisions of this article who is not able to afford legal counsel must be provided with court appointed counsel having no less than five years’ prior experience in the active practice of criminal law.
Ala. Code § 13A-5-54
Appointment of Experienced Counsel for Indigent Defendants.
Known as the Alabama Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 13A-10-1 to 13A-9-92 (653 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Maples v. Thomas (2012)
Most recently applied in Harris v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections (October 2017)
(Acts 1981, No. 81-178, §16.)
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.