verb
- past tense and past participle of resentence; to impose a new or different sentence on someone who has already been sentenced
Usage: legal
Examples
- The defendant was resentenced to five years after the appeal.
- Due to new evidence, the judge resentenced the convicted man to a lighter penalty.
- The court resentenced him when the original punishment was deemed too harsh.
- After the successful appeal, she was resentenced to community service instead of prison.
- The criminal was resentenced following changes in state law.
- Higher courts can order that defendants be resentenced under revised guidelines.