(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.
Structure Maryland Statutes
Title 6 - Trial and Sentencing
Part I - State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy
Section 6-201 - "Commission" Defined
Section 6-202 - Statement of Intent
Section 6-205 - Quorum; Meetings; Compensation; Staff
Section 6-206 - Miscellaneous Powers and Duties
Section 6-207 - Duty of State and Local Units
Section 6-208 - Sentencing Guidelines
Section 6-210 - Collecting Guidelines Worksheets and Monitoring of Practice
Section 6-211 - Adoption of Voluntary Guidelines
Section 6-212 - Training, Operations, and Information
Section 6-213 - Use of Correctional Population Simulation Model