Md. Code, Crim. Proc. § 6-209

Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session effective on or before 7/1/2024, from Chs.. 2 through 1049

Section 6-209 - [Effective until 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) subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection:

1. for sentences involving a crime of violence, include information disaggregated by circuit on:

A. the number and percentage of sentencing events in each disposition category, as indicated on the sentencing guidelines worksheet;

B. the number and percentage of sentencing events that resulted in a departure from the sentencing guidelines; and

C. for sentencing events that resulted in a departure from the sentencing guidelines, the departure reasons cited and the number and percentage of events in which each reason was cited; and

2. for sentencing events involving a crime of violence, report disaggregated by circuit and crime on:

A. the average total sentence;

B. the average nonsuspended sentence; and

C. for sentences in which a portion of the sentence was suspended, the average percentage of the total sentence suspended;

(iv) 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

(v) 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.

(3) The Commission shall conspicuously post the information required to be included in the report under paragraph (1)(iii) of this subsection in a data dashboard on its public website.

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.