Opinion ID: 2974024
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Heading: Reprosecution

Text: Although we affirm the district court’s decision to order both Satterlee’s immediate release and the expungement of his record of conviction, the unconditional writ leaves ambiguous an important issue: whether the state may reprosecute Satterlee. In a typical case in which a prisoner is released because a state fails to retry the prisoner by the deadline set in a conditional writ, “the state is not precluded from rearresting petitioner and retrying him under the same indictment.” Fisher, 757 F.2d at 791; accord, e.g., Foster v. Lockhart, 9 F.3d 722, 727-28 (8th Cir. 1993); Moore v. Zant, 972 F.2d 318, 320 (11th Cir. 1992), cert. denied, 507 U.S. 1007 (1993); 2 HERTZ & LIEBMAN, supra, § 33.3, at 1686 (“[F]ederal courts usually permit rearrest and retrial after the time period specified in the conditional release order has elapsed and the prisoner has been released.”). However, in “extraordinary circumstances,” such as when “the state inexcusably, repeatedly, or otherwise abusively fails to act within the prescribed time period or if the state’s delay is likely to prejudice the petitioner’s ability to mount a defense at trial,” a habeas court may “forbid[] reprosecution.” 2 HERTZ & LIEBMAN, supra, § 33.3, at 1685-86 (footnotes omitted). It is not clear whether the unconditional writ granted by the district court is unconditional (1) in the sense that it is effective immediately but reprosecution is permitted or (2) in the sense that it bars reprosecution. Thus, we instruct the district court to clarify on remand which of these meanings it intended and, if it meant to forbid reprosecution, to justify its conclusion.7 7 If the district court permits reprosecution, it should also consider whether “law and justice require,” 28 U.S.C. § 2243, the writ to include a provision mandating the state to reinstate the six-to-twenty-year offer if it ever chooses to reprosecute Satterlee. The ineffective assistance of counsel is “subject to the general rule that remedies should be tailored to the injury suffered from the constitutional violation.” United States v. Morrison, 449 U.S. 361, 364 (1981). “The only way to effectively repair the constitutional deprivation [the petitioner] suffered is to restore him to the position in which he would have been had the deprivation not occurred.” Lewandowski v. Makel, 949 F.2d 884, 889 (6th Cir. 1991). Where, as here, a defendant receives a greater sentence than one contained in a plea offer that he would have accepted if not for the ineffective assistance of counsel, the properly tailored remedy is to give the defendant the opportunity to accept the offer, because simply retrying the petitioner without making the plea offer would not remedy the constitutional violation that led to the issuance of the writ. Turner v. Tennessee, 858 F.2d 1201, 1208 (6th Cir. 1988) Nos. 05-2013/2513 Satterlee v. Wolfenbarger Page 8 V. CONCLUSION For the reasons set forth above, we AFFIRM the grant of the conditional writ in No. 052013, AFFIRM the grant of the unconditional writ in No. 05-2513 with instructions to clarify, and REMAND for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. (“[T]he only way to neutralize the constitutional deprivation suffered . . . would seem to be to provide [the petitioner] with an opportunity to consider the State’s two-year plea offer with the effective assistance of counsel.”), vacated on other grounds, 492 U.S. 902 (1989); Nunes v. Mueller, 350 F.3d 1045, 1057-58 (9th Cir. 2003), cert. denied, 543 U.S. 1038 (2004); United States v. Blaylock, 20 F.3d 1458, 1468 (9th Cir. 1994); United States v. Rodriguez Rodriguez, 929 F.2d 747, 753 n.1 (1st Cir. 1991); United States ex rel. Caruso v. Zelinsky, 689 F.2d 435, 438 (3d Cir. 1982); see also Lewandowski, 949 F.2d at 887, 889 (ordering release when the defendant had already served a longer sentence than would have been possible under a favorable plea offer); Boria v. Keane, 99 F.3d 492, 499 (2d Cir. 1996) (same), cert. denied, 521 U.S. 1118 (1997).