256 Ga. App. 353 - Cook v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 206 Ga. App. 197 - Cottingham v. State · 208 Ga. App. 472 - Jones v. State · 244 Ga. App. 477 - Jackson v. State · 236 Ga. App. 889 - Moore v. State · 251 Ga. App. 7 - Stovall v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The First Offender Act provides that, for a defendant without prior felony convictions, a court may defer entering a judgment of guilt and place the defendant on probation or in confinement. OCGA § 42-8-60 (a). While the decision whether to sentence a defendant as a first offender lies entirely within the trial court’s discretion (Moore v. State, 236 Ga. App. 889, 890 ( 514 SE2d 73 ) (1999)), the trial court is required to exercise that discretion rather than apply an inflexible rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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