Md. Code, Crim. Proc. § 6-209

Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 6-209 - [Effective 10/1/2025] Annual report
(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.

Md. Code, CP § 6-209

Amended by 2022 Md. Laws, Ch. 141, Sec. 1, eff. 10/1/2022, exp. 10/1/2025.
This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.