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<section article="gcp" article_name="Criminal Procedure" number="8-105" title_number="8" title_name="Other Postconviction Review" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="In General">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A review panel consists of three or more circuit court judges of the judicial circuit in which the sentencing court is located.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Notwithstanding any Maryland Rule, the sentencing judge may not be a member of the review panel, but on request of the sentencing judge, the sentencing judge may sit with the review panel only in an advisory capacity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A review panel shall consider each application for review of a sentence.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A review panel may require the Division of Parole and Probation to make investigations, reports, and recommendations.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A review panel:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>with or without a hearing, may decide that the sentence under review should remain unchanged; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>after a hearing, may order a different sentence to be imposed or served, including:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>an increased sentence;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>subject to § 8-107(c) of this subtitle, a decreased sentence;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>a suspended sentence to be served wholly or partly; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>a sentence to be suspended with or without probation.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>In deciding to order a different sentence, the review panel may impose conditions that the review panel considers just and that could have been imposed lawfully by the sentencing court when the sentence was imposed.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If the review panel orders a different sentence, the review panel shall resentence and notify the defendant in accordance with the order of the panel.</text>
  </level>
</section>
