Definition of "resentence" []

• To issue a new sentence for certain crimes (verb)

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• "U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve, who oversaw the trial, will have to resentence Black, considering only the two convictions that were upheld."
• "Waukesha - Saying a drug dealer committed a "fraud on the court," a judge Wednesday decided to resentence a Waukesha man whom he earlier had given a break because of the man's false claim that he had been a POW during the Vietnam War."
• "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit agreed with the government and vacated Mr. Lawrence's sentence, directing that the district court resentence Mr. Lawrence to a term of incarceration selected from within the 10-to-16-month range that the sentencing guidelines said was fair and appropriate for people like Mr. Lawrence."