LD 2001
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found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disease or
defect, insanity or is placed in institutional confinement under
Title 15, section 101-B after having been found incompetent to
stand trial, must receive notice of the defendant's unconditional
release and discharge from institutional confinement upon the
expiration of the sentence or upon release from commitment under
Title 15, section 101-B or upon discharge under Title 15, section
104-A and must receive notice of any conditional release of the
defendant from institutional confinement, including probation,
supervised release for sex offenders, parole, furlough, work
release, intensive supervision, supervised community confinement,
home release monitoring or similar program, administrative release
or release under Title 15, section 104-A.

 
Sec. 15. 17-A MRSA §1175, sub-§3, ¶B, as amended by PL 2005, c. 488,
§4, is further amended to read:

 
B. The nature of the release authorized, whether it is a
conditional release, including probation, supervised release
for sex offenders, parole, furlough, work release, intensive
supervision, supervised community confinement, home release
monitoring or a similar program, administrative release or
release under Title 15, section 104-A, or an unconditional
release and discharge upon release from commitment under
Title 15, section 101-B or upon the expiration of a sentence
or upon discharge under Title 15, section 104-A;

 
Sec. 16. 17-A MRSA §1175, sub-§4, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 680,
§5, is amended to read:

 
A. Notice has been provided of an unconditional release or
discharge upon the expiration of the sentence or upon
release under Title 15, section 101-B or upon discharge
under Title 15, section 104-A; or

 
Sec. 17. 17-A MRSA §1252, sub-§4, as amended by PL 1977, c. 510, §78,
is further amended to read:

 
4. If the State pleads and proves that a Class B, C, D or E
crime was committed with the use of a dangerous weapon then the
sentencing class for such crime is one class higher than it would
otherwise be. In the case of a Class A crime committed with the
use of a dangerous weapon, such use should be given serious
consideration by the court in exercising its sentencing
discretion. This subsection shall does not apply to a violation
or an attempted violation of section 208, to any other offenses
to which use of a dangerous weapon serves as an element or to any
offense for which the sentencing class is otherwise increased
because the actor or an accomplice to his that actor's or


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