2013 Maryland Code
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 6-209 - Annual report

§6-209.

(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 § 2-1246 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.