Confirms that on resentencing after retrial, the prior sentence operates as a ceiling but the court must conduct instinctive synthesis afresh; demonstrates that inordinate delay (over 4 years), demonstrated rehabilitation progress during the interval between trials, and COVID-19 prison conditions remain powerful mitigating factors that can reduce a sentence even where the jury's factual findings establish greater moral culpability than found at the first trial.
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