Section 8-102 - Right to sentence review. - Maryland Statutes

§ 8-102. Right to sentence review.
 

(a)  Persons entitled to review.- Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a person convicted of a crime by a circuit court and sentenced to serve a sentence that exceeds 2 years in a correctional facility is entitled to a single sentence review by a review panel. 

(b)  Exception.- A person is not entitled: 

(1) to a sentence review if the sentence was imposed by more than one circuit court judge; or 

(2) to a review of an order requiring a suspended part of a sentence to be served if: 

(i) the sentence originally was wholly or partly suspended; 

(ii) the sentence was reviewed; and 

(iii) the suspended sentence or suspended part of that sentence later was required to be served. 

(c)  Sentence exceeding 2 years.- For purposes of this subtitle, a sentence that exceeds 2 years is a sentence in which the total period of the sentence and any unserved time of a prior or simultaneous sentence exceeds 2 years, including: 

(1) a sentence imposed by a circuit court; 

(2) a requirement by a circuit court that all or part of a suspended sentence be served; and 

(3) a prior or simultaneous sentence, suspended or not suspended, that has been imposed by a court or other authority of the State or of another jurisdiction. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 27, §§ 645JA(a), 645JB; 2001, ch. 10, § 2; ch. 29, § 5; 2002, ch. 19, § 1; 2005, ch. 387; 2007, ch. 647.]