PER CURIAM:
Terry initially appealed to this Court after the Virginia District Court refused to grant habeas corpus relief. Among his grounds for relief, Terry complained that he had been improperly given a longer jail sentence after retrial for the same offenses. The second trial was conducted de novo in a separate state court system. No affirmative reasons were given for imposing an increased sentence.
We applied North Carolina v. Pearce,
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