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<section article="gcp" article_name="Criminal Procedure" number="6-209" title_number="6" title_name="Trial and Sentencing" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Sentencing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The report shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>include any changes to the sentencing guidelines made during the preceding year;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>review judicial compliance with the sentencing guidelines, including compliance by crime and by judicial circuit;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>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</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>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.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>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.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
