Terms Used In Maryland Code, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE 8-102

  • including: means includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. See
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Person: includes an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental entity. See
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a person convicted of a crime by a circuit court and sentenced to serve a sentence that exceeds 2 years in a correctional facility is entitled to a single sentence review by a review panel.

(b) A person is not entitled:

(1) to a sentence review if the sentence was imposed by more than one circuit court judge; or

(2) to a review of an order requiring a suspended part of a sentence to be served if:

(i) the sentence originally was wholly or partly suspended;

(ii) the sentence was reviewed; and

(iii) the suspended sentence or suspended part of that sentence later was required to be served.

(c) For purposes of this subtitle, a sentence that exceeds 2 years is a sentence in which the total period of the sentence and any unserved time of a prior or simultaneous sentence exceeds 2 years, including:

(1) a sentence imposed by a circuit court;

(2) a requirement by a circuit court that all or part of a suspended sentence be served; and

(3) a prior or simultaneous sentence, suspended or not suspended, that has been imposed by a court or other authority of the State or of another jurisdiction.