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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Hodge finds the superior court improperly denied defendant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus arriving seven years after an amended judgment increased his sentence for second-degree murder from 10 years to 20 years, running consecutively with a separate 10-year sentence for voluntarily manslaughter. Defendant has made a case for ineffective assistance of counsel based on his lawyer's failure to respond to prosecutors' motion to increase defendant's sentence for around nine months before the motion was granted, and the superior court was wrong to determine there was no reasonable probability that the outcome of defendant's proceeding would have been different if defendant's lawyer had opposed the motion. Because the relief sought by the state to increase defendant's sentence also violates the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause, defendant's habeas petition is granted, and the case is remanded to the superior court to vacate the order modifying his sentence and reinstate his original sentence.