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May 20, 2026 - MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a 16-state coalition letter supporting a rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to help streamline federal review of state capital murder convictions. In support of the rule, DOJ observes that the average time spent on death row is 21 years. In Alabama, the time it takes to conclude a capital murder case can be even longer, and federal judicial review is a significant impediment to swift justice. D...
(Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed an emergency motion today with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate or stay district court injunctions blocking the State from using its lawfully enacted 2021 map for State Senate districts. The filing requests a ruling on or before May 8, ahead of Alabama's May 19 primary election. The motion argues that last week's landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais confirmed that the district court erred b...
March 31, 2026 - (Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has urged federal officials to work with state and local authorities to combat the alarming rise of criminals using drones to deliver narcotics, weapons, cell phones, and other contraband into prisons. Drones have become a major public safety threat impacting correctional facilities across the country and are fueling broader crime both inside and outside of prison walls. Under current federal law, only a narrow set of f...
April 7. 2026 - Montgomery, Ala. - Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that former International Motor Sports Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) Executive Director Michael Raita, 67, has been indicted and arrested on a felony ethics charge alleging the use of public employment for personal gain. Raita, a resident of Chelsea, voluntarily surrendered to the Talladega County Sheriff's Office following the indictment. Allegations Stemming From State Audit The Attorney General's Special...
April 8, 2026 - (MONTGOMERY, Ala) – Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the dismissal of Roderick Byrd's challenge to his capital murder conviction and death sentence. Byrd was convicted in the Jefferson County Circuit Court of capital murder and sentenced to death on August 17, 2007. The evidence showed that on Thanksgiving Day in 2005, Byrd and his friend Brandon Mitchell robbed the Airport Inn in Birmingham. Byrd and Mitchell e...
MONTGOMERY, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall led a coalition of 24 States in filing a letter with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to stop federal funding of sex-change procedures on children. The letter, sent to Secretary Kennedy, issues direct comments on two proposed rules that would restrict federal funding from continuing to subsidize sex-change procedures for minors under Medicare and Medicaid and the C...
February 23, 2026 - MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Attorney General Steve Marshall announced today that a former employee of a Tuscaloosa nursing home has been arrested for the theft of funds from the facility's residents. At the time of the crimes, Tameko H. Green, 52, a Tuscaloosa resident, had been employed as the facility's financial officer. In that capacity Green was responsible for maintaining the facility's patient trust fund, an account used for the residents' daily needs. Green had been employed...
February 10, 2026 - WASHINGTON, D.C.) –Attorney General Steve Marshall joined an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a constitutional challenge to a California school district's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc. v. Carvalho, was filed after the Los Angeles Unified School District fired over 500 employees who refused to comply with the district's vaccine mandate in 2021. The en banc Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of the emp...
February 12, 2026 - MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the indictment* of a Camden woman on three felony charges related to a large theft scheme and identity theft. Angela Blackmon Barge, 56, was served with the indictment against her on Wednesday evening. She is currently being held on a $90,000 cash-only bond. Following an investigation, Attorney General Marshall's Special Prosecutions Division presented evidence to a Wilcox County grand jury on February 9, 2026,...
MONTGOMERY – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall today announced the winners of the 2025 Safe School Awards. The selection process featured a comprehensive four phase application and review process by highly educated judges who have skill and knowledge in school safety trends. Nine schools from across the State of Alabama were selected to receive the Safe School Award, the highest achievement. Attorney General Marshall will visit each school to present their award in person. "Through the A...
MONTGOMERY – Chief Justice Sarah H. Stewart has appointed retired Circuit Judge Allen T. Jolley as a visiting judge to preside over State of Alabama v. William Chase Johnson in Macon County Circuit Court, marking the implementation of the Speedy Trial Act which was passed by the Alabama Legislature last year. Johnson is charged with capital murder in the November 2019 shooting death of Lowndes County Sheriff John "Big John" Williams at a Hayneville gas station. Attorney General Marshall's Office...
(Montgomery, Ala) - Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined a 21-state coalition of attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in support of Florida's law that ensures that public-school libraries do not provide sexually graphic materials to their young students. A federal district court in Florida ruled that the law likely violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment and entered an order prohibiting Florida from enforcing the l...
(Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Marshall joined a brief challenging a Colorado school district's policy that uses a student's self-professed gender identity rather than biological sex to room students together on field trips and sporting events. A federal district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by parents challenging the policy. Attorney General Marshall joined a 21-state brief in support of the parents' appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The brief a...
November 10, 2025 - (Montgomery, Ala) – Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Cullman County Circuit Court granted his request for a temporary restraining order against Aurora IV and Wellness, a Cullman-based IV infusion clinic, and its owners, Amanda and Chris Medders. The Attorney General alleges that the defendants illegally administered unsafe, research-grade weight loss drugs to patients without their knowledge or consent. The Attorney General's Office sought a temporary r...
MONTGOMERY, AL - Attorney General Steve Marshall today hosted the 26th Annual Alabama Attorney General's Law Enforcement Summit. The Summit, held at the Church of the Highlands, provided continuing education training for law enforcement and attorneys from across the state. Participants heard from experts on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Alabama, efforts to combat human trafficking, and modern-day policing. The event also included a memorial ceremony honoring...
September 21, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall today filed two 28-state amicus briefs urging the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve states' authority to enact laws that protect girls' sports by ensuring that all participants are biological females. Idaho and West Virginia enacted such laws but had them invalidated by the Ninth and Fourth Circuit Courts of Appeals, respectively. Both courts held that the state laws likely violate the Equal Protection Clause of the F...
September 15, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – The Alabama Engage Together Project (ETP) has selected 12 Research Fellows from six universities across the state to join its groundbreaking, multi-year effort to end and prevent human trafficking in Alabama. ETP is a two-phase, three-year transformational community assessment initiative spearheaded by Attorney General Steve Marshall. The project is designed to identify community strengths and gaps, mobilize multi-sector collaboration, and equip local l...
September 2, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall led a 21-state amicus brief today in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the religious freedoms of the Amish community in rural New York. The State of New York has imposed massive penalties on Amish-only private schools because Amish parents hold religious beliefs against vaccinating their Amish children who attend these schools. The brief, filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, argues that when New York eliminated l...
September 4, 2025 - MOINTGOMERY, AL - Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction of Teenya Dashawn Heard, 47, of Oxford, for murder. Heard was convicted in the Calhoun County Circuit Court on February 15, 2024. The evidence at trial showed that on the evening of July 24, 2020, Heard attended a birthday party and left her children at home with her husband. Heard's husband joined her later at the birthday party and subsequently got...
August 22, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the indictment of two individuals in a case involving multiple property crimes occurring in Thomasville, Alabama. Anthony Kirven Williams and Teresa Cobb Williams, of Linden, were arrested and booked into the Clarke County Jail on August 20. They each have a bond set at $450,000. The alleged crimes occurred in Clarke County and were investigated by the Thomasville Police Department and the Attorney General's Consumer...
August 21, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL. – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general calling on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to take emergency action to schedule a drug linked to deaths across the country. In a letter to DEA Administrator Terry Cole, the attorneys general sounded the alarm on bromazolam, a dangerous and unregulated designer drug often referred to as "designer Xanax." They outlined safety concerns calling bromazolam "highly p...
August 25, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL. – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined a coalition of 26 states in support of ending California's illegal war on gas-powered cars and trucks. The States' brief filed in the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals explains the authority of Congress and President Trump to revoke waivers granted to California by the Biden Administration's EPA. The waivers authorized by Biden allowed California's radical net-zero emissions to dictate what vehicles A...
August 26, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - Attorney General Steve Marshall announced today that a former employee of the Alabama Medicaid Agency has been convicted for the theft of over $100,000 in public funds. Natalie Colette Lewis, 60, of Montgomery, pleaded guilty to Aggravated Theft of Property before Montgomery County Circuit Judge Brooke Reid. Sentencing is set for October 2nd. Lewis faces up to 30 years imprisonment, a $60,000 fine, and forfeiture of her state retirement benefits. Lewis had...
August 12, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall today expressed his strong support for President Donald Trump's nomination of Edmund LaCour Jr. to serve as a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama. "President Trump could not have made a better choice than Edmund LaCour for the federal bench," said Attorney General Marshall. "Eddie is one of the most brilliant and principled lawyers with whom I have ever worked. His deep understanding of the law, h...
July 15, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Last week, on behalf of Attorney General Steve Marshall, Chief Deputy Attorney General Clay Crenshaw presented the inaugural Carolyn Potter Outstanding Anti-Human Trafficking Service Award, recognizing exceptional leadership and impact in the fight against human trafficking in Alabama. The award honors an individual or organization that has significantly advanced anti-human trafficking efforts across the state. It is intended to commend admirable service, e...
