Section 8-102 - Right to sentence review.
§ 8-102. Right to sentence review.
(a) Persons entitled to review.- 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) Exception.- 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) Sentence exceeding 2 years.- 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.
[An. Code 1957, art. 27, §§ 645JA(a), 645JB; 2001, ch. 10, § 2; ch. 29, § 5; 2002, ch. 19, § 1; 2005, ch. 387; 2007, ch. 647.]