How to Use resentence in a Sentence

resentence

verb

• Green was sentenced to death, though he was resentenced to life in prison in 2009.
  — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2023
• Her office was seeking to resentence him to 20 to 30 years, instead.
  — NBC News, 30 Dec. 2021
• So, Fred Woods and the Schoenfeld brothers were resentenced to life with the possibility of parole.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2023
• Winslow still plans to bring his case to a state appeals court, where judges recently granted a resentencing request in a case Winslow thinks is similar to his own.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• The appeals judges said Moody should resentence Buncich.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• Maldonado-Passage was resentenced to 21 years in prison last year after a federal appeals court ruled that the prison term should be shortened.
  — Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
• Green, who is Black, was sentenced to death by an all-White jury, then resentenced to life in prison in 2009 due to a technicality related to the sentencing phase of his trial.
  — Carlos Suarez, CNN, 17 Apr. 2023
• Winslow, a former tight end with the Cleveland Browns, had argued in handwritten briefs to the court that new California criminal justice reforms allowed him to be resentenced.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
• Judges in Alabama have been following guidance laid out by the Alabama Supreme Court on the factors – such as age and maturity - on how to determine whether to resentence with the possibly of parole.
  — al, 27 Apr. 2021
• Two men convicted of killing six people in Deltona in 2004 in one of Central Florida’s most notorious mass killings are schedule to be back in court today for the beginning of death penalty resentencing hearings.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023
• Lawyers for the disgraced British heiress argue Maxwell was vilified throughout her prosecution and at a minimum should be resentenced or receive a significant sentence reduction if the case isn’t tossed.
  — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
• Luis, originally convicted of first degree murder, was recently resentenced due to a change in laws for juvenile offenders.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• That reform has allowed judges to resentence some defendants, providing relief to people sentenced under the harsher crack-cocaine provisions.
  — Jan Wolfe, WSJ, 27 June 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024