Henry Hayes v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• “[I]f the sentence were invalid and defendant 8 successfully attacked it, he could be validly resentenced though the resentence increased the punishment.”
• “[I]f the sentence were invalid and defendant successfully attacked it, he could be validly resentenced though the resentence increased the punishment.”
• “True it is that defendant had begun to serve time; but as we read [Bozza v. United States, 330 U.S. 160 (1947)] this time was not lawful punishment the augmentation of which, to make the sentence equal to the statutory penalty, constituted double jeopardy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).