Wilcox v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting trial court’s “inflexible rule” regarding the refusal to consider sentencing a defendant as a first offender in armed robbery cases as an abuse 11 of discretion
• trial court adopted “inflexible rule” regarding first offender treatment by automatically refusing to grant such status in armed robbery cases
• trial court made unequivocal statements that it would not give first offender treatment on an armed robbery charge
• Trial court failed to exercise its discretion where it had a per se rule of refusing to permit first offender treatment in armed robbery cases.
• remanded for resentencing where trial court advised defendant multiple times during a hearing on defendant’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea that it would not give first offender treatment to defendants in armed robbery cases
• statements made by trial court indicate first offender treatment was requested

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Steele v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-11-16· cited 17×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-01-09· cited 13×
• John Doe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-09-06· cited 13×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-02-09· cited 10×
• Graydon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-01-13· cited 8×
• Ramage v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-12· cited 7×
• Michael C. Wilkin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-09-27

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 65×
• Cottingham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-10-20· cited 44×
• Wilcox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-04· cited 21×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-04-13· cited 21×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-04-25· cited 8×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-06-12· cited 6×