To date, it has won the reversal or resentencing of fourteen life sentences.

Both defendants will now go back to district court for possible resentencing, with an appeal available to both sides.

The resentencing on the two remaining counts by the original trial judge occurred on June 24, 2011.

A resentencing could also involve a protracted set of hearings, especially if the district attorneys who won the original convictions oppose granting shorter sentences.

He is now being held at the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., awaiting resentencing.

In 2003, a federal appeals court found fault with how a judge had compiled the 15-year term and ordered a resentencing, which resulted in the same 15 years.

If I had not been retired from the bench, I would have heard his request for resentencing and been highly unlikely to have granted it.

However, on January 29, 2010, a federal appeals court overturned the probation sentence on appeal by the prosecution and ordered a resentencing by a different judge.

The resentencing came after the State Supreme Court overturned a death sentence for the man, Anthony DiFrisco, 46, last summer.

One came from Mr. Ramadan who, after his resentencing, said he was innocent and promised that God "will take revenge on everyone who oppressed me."

The ISP Resentencing Panel has final authority over the Plaintiff and there is no way of him appealing its decisions.

The time he has served will be credited to the term Justice John J. Leahy imposes at the resentencing, on Oct. 12.

The Court ruled then that a defendant who had avoided the death penalty in an initial sentencing proceeding could not be forced to face it again in a resentencing.

The appellate court remanded the case to the trial court (but before a difference judge) for resentencing in accordance with the original, negotiated plea deal of just probation and community service.

At the resentencing, Judge Weinfeld listened carefully to all the factors that the appeals court said he had missed, and then he gave the defendant the same sentence that had been challenged.

In seeking resentencing, Mr. Burton has the legal burden of demonstrating to the appeals court not only that his sentence was erroneous, but that he was actually harmed by the error.

George W. Conaty Jr., who is representing Ms. Prather, the Rochester woman, said he had already been in touch with the Monroe County district attorney's office about a resentencing.

The court believed that all the factual issues necessary for a "nonpossession" conviction had been fully litigated, and so affirmed his conviction on that basis and remanded for appropriate resentencing.

"They will be entitled to a resentencing," he said of the smaller group, "and the Legislature will have to come up with a mechanism to figure out how resentencing will work."

So in at least a few cases, like that of Mr. Whalen's client, Mr. Charris, there is the possibility that applying for parole might result in a faster release than a resentencing.

But now David Bogatin, a Russian native with United States citizenship whom even his prosecutors concede is an indefatigable businessman, is back in New York and in jail and awaiting resentencing.

Upon his resentencing, Judge Billings said that he expected Luers would be treated as an "elder statesman" among some activists, and hoped that Luers would use that influence in a productive way.

Another decade passed before that resentencing happened, and by then several of Mr. Booker's literary supporters, as well as some of his victim's relatives, asked that he be allowed to live out his natural life in prison.

Because all three decisions dealt with an idiosyncratic provision of the Texas death penalty law that is no longer in effect, their practical significance may be limited to requiring the resentencing of several dozen inmates on that state's death row.

A day after Mr. Bakker's sentence was struck down, defense lawyers filed a motion asking Judge Graham Mullen, who has been assigned to impose a new sentence, to release Mr. Bakker from prison until the resentencing.