Section 6-209 - Annual report. - Maryland Statutes

§ 6-209. Annual report.
 

(a)  Required.- The Commission shall review annually sentencing policy and practice and, on or before December 1 of each year, report to the General Assembly in accordance with § 2-1246 of the State Government Article. 

(b)  Contents.-  

(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. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 41, § 21-106(d); 2001, ch. 10, § 2; ch. 35; 2002, ch. 559.]