Court Opinion

ID: 9615315
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:34:06.694392+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:03:45.321637
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Smith, Judge,
concurring specially.
I concur in the majority’s analysis of the error made by the trial court. I disagree only with the majority’s direction to the trial court on remand. The transcript reveals clearly that the trial court revoked Lawrence’s probation because he committed new, violent misdemeanors. The violation of any special conditions of probation did not enter into the trial court’s decision to revoke probation. Commission of the new misdemeanors, therefore, limits the length of time to which Lawrence may now be sentenced. OCGA § 42-8-34.1 (b); Gordon v. State, 217 Ga. App. 271 (2) (456 SE2d 761) (1995). In my view, this Court should vacate Lawrence’s sentence and remand to the trial court for resentencing to two years confinement and the rest on probation.