Hartless v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the alternative to probation is the imposition of the court’s sentence
• “To be effective, probation must be concurrent with a coordinate term of suspension of sentence.”
• “[T]he duration of [the defendant’s] probation cannot extend beyond . . . the specified period of suspension.”
• “A court’s ability to revoke the suspension of a sentence and to impose that sentence permits it to enforce a probationary requirement as a condition of suspension.”
• “A court’s ability to revoke the suspension of a sentence and to impose that sentence permits it to enforce a probationary requirement as a condition of suspension.”
• applying these principles in the context of probation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).