Wilford v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that no double jeopardy violation occurred where the defendant was resentenced to a longer term after the trial court 7 determined that his original sentence was improperly imposed under the First Offender Act
• holding that a defendant “who knowingly provides false information to the trial court in order to receive first offender treatment has no reasonable expectation that the resulting sentence is final” and may be subject to an enhanced sentence (punctuation omitted)
• holding that a defendant “who knowingly provides false information to the trial court in order to receive first offender treatment has no reasonable expectation that the resulting sentence is final” and may be subject to an enhanced sentence (punctuation omitted)
• finding that defendant had no expectation in the finality of his sentence when the first offender statute permitted revocation of first offender status
• while still serving his time on probation, a defendant who was “improperly found eligible for first offender treatment may have his [probation] revoked and be resentenced under Georgia law.”
• trial court properly increased sentence of defendant who lied to court to get first offender treatment, but such case holding “is intended to have application only with regard to those criminal defendants who are given treatment under the Georgia First Offender Act. . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).