File Code: Criminal Law - Procedure
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 160/02 - JUD
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Sophocleus
- Entitled:
-
Sentencing - Revisory Power of Courts - Limitations
Authorizing a defendant who seeks a court to change a criminal
sentence to file a specified motion within 90 days; limiting courts'
revisory power over sentencing to 1 year; requiring a decision that
changes the original sentence to be in writing and state the reasons
for the decision; allowing such a motion to be filed at any time in a
case involving an illegal sentence, fraud, a mistake, or an
irregularity; and requiring the court to notify all the defendant's
victims prior to changing the sentence.
House Action
- 2/7
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/12
- Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/18
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- APPEALS -see also- JUDICIAL REVIEW
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT; APPEALS; DISTRICT; ORPHANS'; etc.
- JUDGES
- NOTICES
- SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
- VICTIMS -see also- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Criminal Procedure
- (
6-229
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
