§ 6-209. Annual report

MD Crim Pro Code § 6-209 (2019) (N/A)
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(a)    The Commission shall review annually sentencing policy and practice and, on or before January 31 of each year, report to the General Assembly, in accordance with § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, on the activities of the preceding calendar year.

(b)    (1)    The report shall:

(i)    include any changes to the sentencing guidelines made during the preceding year;

(ii)    review judicial compliance with the sentencing guidelines, including compliance by crime and by judicial circuit;

(iii)    review reductions or increases in original sentences that have occurred because of reconsiderations of sentences imposed under § 14–101 of the Criminal Law Article; and

(iv)    categorize information on the number of reconsiderations of sentences by crimes as listed in § 14–101(a) of the Criminal Law Article and by judicial circuit.

(2)    The Commission shall consider a sentence to a corrections options program to be within the sentencing guidelines if the sentence falls within a corrections options zone shown on the matrix.