Terms Used In Alabama Code 45-51-82.21

  • circuit: means judicial circuit. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.

The District Attorney for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit is specifically endowed with and shall retain all of his or her discretionary powers under the common law. The district attorney shall have the prosecutorial discretion as defined herein or any which he or she has under the common law, and may as a matter of such prosecutorial discretion establish a pretrial or a preprosecution diversionary or deferred prosecution program in all courts within the circuit.