Approved May 13, 1999.

CHAPTER 394
(House Bill 141)

AN ACT concerning

Criminal Procedure - Pretrial Release - Crimes of Violence

FOR the purpose of adding certain crimes of violence to the list of crimes for which a
person may not be released pretrial under certain circumstances; making
certain stylistic revisions; and generally relating to criminal procedure and
pretrial release.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 616 1/2(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1996 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments
Section 643B(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1996 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

616 1/2.

(c) Any person charged with an offense hereinafter enumerated committed
during the time that person had been released on bail or his own recognizance for
committing an offense hereinafter enumerated, is ineligible to give bail or be released
on recognizance on the subsequent charge, until all prior charges hereunder have
finally been determined by the courts. But a person charged with a subsequent crime
hereinafter set forth, may rebut his ineligibility for release on bail before
determination of the prior charge. If, after consideration of the matters presented in
rebuttal, the court hearing the application for bail is persuaded that the applicant
would not pose a danger to any other person or to the community, and would appear
at the time set for trial, the court may allow release pending trial on suitable bail and
on such other conditions as will reasonably assure that the person charged will not
flee. For the purposes of this subsection, court does not mean District Court