Anderson v. Sentinel Offender Services, LLC

Hunstein, Justice.

In Sentinel Offender Svcs., LLC v. Glover, 296 Ga. 315, 329 (3) (b) (766 SE2d 456) (2014) (“Sentinel J”), 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. As we noted in Sentinel I, however, that case provided no occasion *855to consider whether such tolling might be permissible as a matter of common law, and, if so, whether this tolling doctrine has been abrogated by legislation. Id. at 330, n. 25. Now, having been asked by the United States District Court for…