MSCCSP

The Maryland General Assembly created the Maryland State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy (MSCCSP) in 1999 as an independent agency to support fair and proportional sentencing policy and to monitor the State's voluntary sentencing guidelines for criminal cases sentenced in the circuit courts. The MSCCSP is responsible for collecting and automating the sentencing guidelines worksheets, maintaining the sentencing guidelines database, monitoring circuit court sentencing practice, adopting changes to the guidelines consistent with the sentencing practices of Maryland circuit court judges, and providing training and orientation to criminal justice practitioners who apply the sentencing guidelines.

News

April 1, 2021

The MSCCSP released Version 13.0 of the Maryland Sentencing Guidelines Manual (MSGM). MSGM 13.0 amends the instructions regarding guidelines-compliant binding pleas. Please see the April 2021 edition of the Guidelines E-News for additional details about this update.

An updated version of the Maryland Automated Guidelines System (MAGS, version 10.0) was released for immediate use. What's New in MAGS 10.0 describes these updates.