United States v. Ernesto Quintieri, Carlo Donato

How courts have described this case

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• holding that de novo sentencing on remand is appropriate “for example, when the reversal [by the Court of Appeals] effectively undoes the entire knot of calculation”
• concluding that “the law of the case ordinarily prohibits a party, upon resentencing or an appeal from that resentencing, from raising issues that he or she waived by not litigating them at the time of the initial sentencing”
• stating that a district court may reconsider previous rulings on remand, but is not obligated to do so
• noting that the “district court’s own observations of the defendant’s demeanor during the proceedings are relevant to the court’s [competence] determination”
• noting that the “district court’s own observations of the defendant’s demeanor during the proceedings are relevant to the court’s [competence] determination”
• noting that the court should look to the specific dictates of the remand order

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).