CAPORALE, Justice.
This appeal challenges the right of a trial court which has imposed a fine, together with imprisonment up to the maximum period permissible, to peremptorily direct satisfaction of the fine by crediting pretrial custody time against it. We hold a trial court may not so do and remand this case for resentencing of the defendant.
During the late evening hours of May 16, 1981, defendant-appellant, William M. Brumfield, and others met the victim...
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