HB25 Alabama 2023 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Parker Moore Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2023

Title

Relating to criminal procedure; to amend Sections 13A-5-9 and 15-18-8, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the sentencing of individuals convicted of violating a Class D felony.

Description

Under existing law, when an offender has previously been convicted of any three or more felonies, or has been previously convicted of two or more Class A or Class B felonies, and subsequently commits a Class D felony, he or she is sentenced as if he or she had been convicted of a Class C felony.

This bill would provide that on a third or subsequent conviction for a Class D felony, an offender may be sentenced as if he or she had been convicted of a Class C felony.

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Subjects

Criminal procedure; to further provide for the sentencing of individuals convicted of violating a Class D felony