Supreme Court· 2/17/1947

Bozza v. United States

Citations

330 U.S. 160
67 S. Ct. 645
91 L. Ed. 818
1947 U.S. LEXIS 2647

How courts have described this case

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

holding that a sentence may be increased without implicating double jeopardy when the original sentence did not conform to a statutory requirement
holding that the Federal Constitution \does not require that sentencing should be a game in which a wrong move by the judge means immunity for the prisoner\
holding that there is no double jeopardy concern when a judge corrects an erroneous sentence
resentencing that imposes a more severe sentence to correct an omitted mandatory penalty does not violate the double jeopardy clause
holding that correction of an illegal sentence “only set[s] aside what [the sentencing court] had no authority to do, and substitute[s] directions required by the law to be done upon the conviction of the offender” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
rejecting temporal limit “on the correction of an administrative mistake so that a lawful sentence can be served”

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Judges: Black, Douglas, Murphy, Rutledge

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