Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 12-16-56 (2026)
Discrimination Prohibited.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
A citizen shall not be excluded from jury service in this state on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin or economic status.
(Acts 1978, No. 594, p. 712, §2.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 18
cases, 1981–2009 · leading case: Ex Parte Branch, 526 So. 2d 609 (Ala. 1987).
Ex Parte Branch, 526 So. 2d 609 (Ala. 1987). “594, now codified as Code 1975, § 12-16-55 and § 12-16-56, respectively, read as follows: "§ 12-16-55.”
Ex Parte Bruner, 681 So. 2d 173 (Ala. 1996). “We then emphasized: "The trial court, in exercising the duties imposed upon it, must give effect to the state policy expressed in Sections 1, 6, and 22 of the Alabama Constitution and Code 1975, § 12-16-55 and § 12-16-56." 526 So.2d at 624 (emphasis in original).”
Beck v. State, 396 So. 2d 645 (Ala. 1981). “Code 1975, § 12-16-56. Finally, the procedural changes mandated by this opinion will further decrease the likelihood that a sentence of death will be imposed in an arbitrary or capricious manner.”
Thomas v. Diversified Contractors, Inc., 551 So. 2d 343 (Ala. 1989). “" Ala.Code 1975, § 12-16-56. [4] Race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or economic status must not be considered in selecting jurors for the master list, by a jury commission or by the use of mechanical or electronic data processing equipment in accordance with Ala.”
Clark v. Container Corp. of Am., Inc., 589 So. 2d 184 (Ala. 1991). “Code 1975, § 12-16-30) compiles a master list of all the persons in the county who may be called for jury duty (Ala.Code 1975, § 12-16-57); and no citizen can be excluded from jury service on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or economic status (Ala.”
Gordon v. State, 587 So. 2d 427 (Ala. Crim. App. 1990). “" Ala.Code 1975, § 12-16-56, specifically prohibits discrimination in the selection of jurors.”
Ex Parte Hays, 518 So. 2d 768 (Ala. 1988). “Code 1975, § 12-16-56. "Finally, the procedural changes mandated by this opinion will further decrease the likelihood that a sentence of death will be imposed in an arbitrary or capricious manner.”
Lemley v. State, 599 So. 2d 64 (Ala. Crim. App. 1992). “The next section of Article 2A, § 12-16-56, provides: " A citizen shall not be excluded from jury service in this state on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or economic status.”
Ex Parte Murphy, 596 So. 2d 45 (Ala. 1992). “Alabama's policy regarding the right of a person not to be excluded from jury service is plain: "A citizen shall not be excluded from jury service in this state on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin or economic status.”
Yancey v. State, 65 So. 3d 452 (Ala. Crim. App. 2009). “Clair County and the percentages of those same classes as represented on the venire from which Windsor’s jury was chosen, no statistical analysis would reveal the invidious discrimination already prohibited by Alabama law.”
Gen. Motors Corp. v. Hopper, 681 So. 2d 1373 (Ala. 1996). “Code 1975, § 12-16-56." 396 So.2d at 653-54 (emphasis added).”
Fisher v. State, 587 So. 2d 1027 (Ala. Crim. App. 1991). “Thereafter, the trial court overruled the objection to the striking of females. *1030 Because the objection addressed the prosecutor’s peremptory strikes and not the composition of the venire or the method for drawing a venire, the appellant’s grounds alleging the denial of a…”
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