Anderson v. Sentinel Offender Services, LLC

In the Supreme Court of Georgia Decided: March 25, 2016 S15Q1816. ANDERSON v. SENTINEL OFFENDER SERVICES, LLC. HUNSTEIN, Justice. In Sentinel Offender Services, LLC. v. Glover, we concluded that Georgia’s private probation statutory framework, see OCGA § 42-8-100 et seq., does not allow for the tolling of misdemeanor probationers’ sentences. 296 Ga. 315, 329(3) (b) ( 766 SE2d 456) (2014) (“Sentinel I”). As we noted in Sentinel I, however, that case provided no occasion to consider whether such tolling might be permissible as a matter of common law, and, if so, whether this tolling doctrine…