Wilford v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• 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).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 42×
• Smarr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-09-07· cited 17×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-04-19· cited 16×
• Parrott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 13×
• Sentence Review Panel v. Moseley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 7×
• LOVELESS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-26· cited 5×
• Hoosline v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-10· cited 1×
• Page v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11
• Jordash Tanksley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-02-24
• Deonte Smarr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-09-06
• Kim Marie Hoosline v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-10
• Robert Ray Whipkey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-10-30
• Christian Evans Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-02-23
• State v. Andrew Hammond
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-06-21

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. DiFrancesco
  Supreme Court· 1980-12-09· cited 1,657×
• United States v. Benz
  Supreme Court· 1931-01-05· cited 503×
• England v. Newton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-03-10· cited 26×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 5×
• Wilford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-01-13· cited 1×