(2) AN INMATE WHO IS SERVING A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT FOR A
VIOLENT CRIME COMMITTED ON OR AFTER OCTOBER 1, 1994, SHALL RECEIVE AN
ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW OF THE INMATE'S PROGRESS IN THE CORRECTIONAL
FACILITY AFTER THE INMATE HAS SERVED THE GREATER OF:

(I) ONE-FOURTH OF THE INMATE'S AGGREGATE SENTENCE; OR

(II) IF THE INMATE IS SERVING A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT THAT
INCLUDES A MANDATORY TERM DURING WHICH THE INMATE IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR
PAROLE, A PERIOD EQUAL TO THE TERM DURING WHICH THE INMATE IS NOT
ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE.

(D) LIFE IMPRISONMENT.

(1) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPHS (2) AND (3) OF THIS
SUBSECTION, AN INMATE WHO HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT IS
NOT ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE CONSIDERATION UNTIL THE INMATE HAS SERVED 15
YEARS OR THE EQUIVALENT OF 15 YEARS CONSIDERING THE ALLOWANCES FOR
DIMINUTION OF THE INMATE'S TERM OF CONFINEMENT UNDER ARTICLE 27, § 638C
OF THE CODE AND TITLE 3, SUBTITLE 7 OF THIS ARTICLE.

(2) AN INMATE WHO HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT AS
A RESULT OF A PROCEEDING UNDER ARTICLE 27, § 413 IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE
CONSIDERATION UNTIL THE INMATE HAS SERVED 25 YEARS OR THE EQUIVALENT OF
25 YEARS CONSIDERING THE ALLOWANCES FOR DIMINUTION OF THE INMATE'S TERM
OF CONFINEMENT UNDER ARTICLE 27, § 638C OF THE CODE AND TITLE 3, SUBTITLE 7
OF THIS ARTICLE.

(3) (I) IF AN INMATE HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT FOR
LIFE WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE UNDER ARTICLE 27, § 412 OR § 413 OF
THE CODE, THE INMATE IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE CONSIDERATION AND MAY
NOT BE GRANTED PAROLE AT ANY TIME DURING THE INMATE'S SENTENCE.

(II) THIS PARAGRAPH DOES NOT RESTRICT THE AUTHORITY OF THE
GOVERNOR TO PARDON OR REMIT ANY PART OF A SENTENCE UNDER § 7-601 OF THIS
TITLE.

(4) IF ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE UNDER THIS SUBSECTION, AN INMATE
SERVING A TERM OF LIFE IMPRISONMENT MAY ONLY BE PAROLED WITH THE
APPROVAL OF THE GOVERNOR

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is new language derived without substantive
change from former Art. 41, § 4-516.

In the introductory language of subsection (a) of this section, the phrase
"[e]xcept as otherwise provided in this section" is added to state expressly
that which only was implied in the former law.

Also in the introductory language of subsection (a) of this section, the
former reference to the Commission's duty to request an investigation "of
its own initiative" is deleted as implicit in the requirement that the
Commission request an investigation.