# Criminal Procedure (GCP)

## Title 6. Trial and Sentencing

### Subtitle 2. Sentencing

#### Section 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 Sec. 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 Sec. 14-101 of the Criminal Law Article; and

    (iv) categorize information on the number of reconsiderations of sentences by crimes as listed in Sec. 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.

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Md. Code Ann., Crim. Proc. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)