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Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 16. Discovery. (2) Disclose the substance of any oral statements made by any such codefendant or accomplice, before or after arrest, to any law enforcement officer, official, or employee which the state/municipality intends to offer in evidence at the trial.

Written Discovery. Introduction. Discovery is the processes by which parties attempt to obtain information, documents, statements, and any other relevant facts pertaining to your case, some of which will be used as evidence at trial.

Discovery is the formal process by which the parties to a case in court exchange information about the case. This includes information about the witnesses and evidence to be presented at trial. Its purpose is to make the parties aware of the evidence which may be presented at trial.

Generally, responses or objections are due in 30 days. It has frequently been held that both good faith and the spirit of the rule require the party answering interrogatories to see to it that his answers are truthful as of the time of the trial as well as of the time when the interrogatories are answered.

Rule 26 applies in the district courts except that the reference to physical and mental examinations is deleted and all other discovery methods referred to in Rule 26(a) shall be available only in the discretion of the court on motion of the party seeking such discovery or by agreement of the parties.

Discovery may be carried out by directly asking a person questions (oral depositions), by sending a person written questions (interrogatories and depositions on written questions), and by requesting that the person provide documents (motions for production, subpoenas duces tecum).