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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".17" citation="COMAR 14.22.01.17" title_num="14" subtitle_num="22" chapter_num="01" heading="Sentences Deemed to Be Within Guidelines.">
  <text>Notwithstanding the actual guidelines range, the Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy shall deem a sentence within the guidelines range if a judge:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Approved an MSCCSP binding plea agreement and sentence agreed to by both the defendant and by the State;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Sentenced a defendant to a period of pre-sentence incarceration time with no additional post-sentence incarceration time and the length of credited pre-sentence incarceration exceeds the upper guidelines range for the case; or</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Imposed a sentence of corrections options if the defendant’s:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Initial sentence plus any suspended sentence falls within or above the overall guidelines range; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Current sentence or sentences and any pending charges do not include a violation of:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>A crime of violence under Criminal Law Article, §14-101, Annotated Code of Maryland;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Sexual child abuse under Criminal Law Article, §3-602, Annotated Code of Maryland;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Escape; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>A law of the United States or of any other state or the District of Columbia similar to §C(2)(a)—(c) of this regulation.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>