SHARP, Justice.
Defendant's appeal presents for our reconsideration this question: Upon the retrial and conviction of an accused whose earlier conviction for the same offense was set aside upon appeal or in post-conviction proceedings because of a constitutional defect in the first trial, may the court impose a sentence severer than the one vacated?
The decisions of this Court have established the following rules for this jurisdiction: When, upon defendant...
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