Misdemeanor Fee-based Probation Tolling Ends after Georgia Supreme Court Ruling
(APN) ATLANTA — The Supreme Court of Georgia unanimously ruled, on November 24, 2014, that courts are prohibited from lengthening a person’s misdemeanor sentence beyond what was originally ordered by the sentencing court. The opinion was written by Chief Justice Hugh Thompson. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s finding that private probation companies do not have the legal […]
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