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<section article="gcp" article_name="Criminal Procedure" number="4-202.2" title_number="4" title_name="Pretrial Procedures" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Venue and Other Procedural Matters">
  <level label="a">
    <text>At sentencing, a court exercising criminal jurisdiction in a case involving a child shall determine whether to transfer jurisdiction to the juvenile court if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>as a result of trial or a plea entered under Maryland Rule 4–242, all charges that excluded jurisdiction from the juvenile court under § 3–8A–03(d)(1) or (4) of the Courts Article do not result in a finding of guilty; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>pretrial transfer was prohibited under § 4–202(c)(2) of this subtitle; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the court did not transfer jurisdiction after a hearing under § 4–202(b) of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In determining whether to transfer jurisdiction under subsection (a) of this section, the court shall consider:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the age of the child;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the mental and physical condition of the child;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the amenability of the child to treatment in an institution, facility, or program available to delinquent children;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the nature of the child’s acts as proven in the trial or admitted to in a plea entered under Maryland Rule 4–242; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>public safety.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The court may not consider transferring jurisdiction to the juvenile court under this section if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>under the terms of a plea agreement entered under Maryland Rule 4–243, the child agrees that jurisdiction is not to be transferred; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>pretrial transfer was prohibited under § 4–202(c)(1) of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A victim or victim’s representative shall be given notice of the transfer hearing as provided under § 11–104 of this article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>A victim or victim’s representative may submit a victim impact statement to the court as provided in § 11–402 of this article.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>This paragraph does not preclude a victim or victim’s representative who has not filed a notification request form under § 11–104 of this article from submitting a victim impact statement to the court.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The court shall consider a victim impact statement in determining whether to transfer jurisdiction under this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the court transfers its jurisdiction to the juvenile court, the court shall conduct a disposition under the regular procedures of the juvenile court.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The record of the hearing and of the disposition shall be transferred to the juvenile court, subject to § 3–8A–27 of the Courts Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
