GA 17-10-12 - GA 17-10-12

JUDICIAL DECISIONS It is trial judge's responsibility to impose legally proper sentence, one which does not exceed the maximum authorized and is certain enough to allow the Board of Offender Rehabilitation (now Department of Corrections) and the State Board of Pardons and Paroles to compute the sentence and all the credits and losses that the law authorizes or mandates. Swain v. State, 157 Ga. App. 868 , 278 S.E.2d 743 (1981). Sentence need not reflect consideration of time in confinement awaiting trial. - Fair reading of the provisions of Ga. L. 1972, p. 742, §§ 1-3 (see O.C.G.A. §§ 17-10-11 and 17-10-12 ) indicates that while a trial court should give consideration for time spent in confinement pending trial, the statutes do not require the trial court affirmatively to reflect that consi...