Johnny Gonzalez v. the State of Texas

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• stating that a judge may not resentence the defendant on convictions “for which the defendant has already served his sentence, because any such resentencing would result in an increase in punishment in violation of double jeopardy principles” (citation omitted)
• defendant's community parole supervision for life [CPSL] sentence may have played part in judge's over-all concept of sentencing
• defendant's community parole supervision for life [CPSL] sentence may have played part in judge's over-all concept of sentencing
• defendants did not challenge their convictions, but succeeded in eliminating one component of a sentencing scheme
• rule 30 [a] was \proper mechanism by 34 which to challenge constitutionality of the [community parole supervision for life] sentencing scheme\
• double jeopardy considerations prohibit resentencing defendant to any additional period of incarceration or probation if, at time of resentencing, defendant has served entire sentence other than CPSL component

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).