Ventetoulo v. Attorney General RI

How courts have described this case

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• holding that reinstatement of a defendant’s life sentence violated due process where the state had reopened a “final unappealed decision”
• finding a due process violation based in large part on the government's taking no action to correct a sentencing error
• finding the delay from when DeWitt was released from prison in January 1987 to September 1987 when he was rearrested, a delay of six months, to be “lengthy”
• finding the delay from when DeWitt was released from prison in January 1987 to September 1987 when he was rearrested, a delay of six months, to be \lengthy\
• finding a due process violation based in large part on the government’s taking no action to correct a sentencing error
• in addition to obtaining work, beginning a painting business, and resuming his familial relationships, prisoner had previously saved a prison guard from another inmate’s attack

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).