Today, the Ninth Circuit designated for publication its order of February 14 on remand from the United States Supreme Court in Arave v. Hoffman.

Accordingly the U.S. Supreme Court vacated this court's judgment to the extent that it addressed the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during plea bargaining, and remanded for future proceedings. We now instruct the district court to dismiss with prejudice Hoffman's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during plea bargaining. The district court's grant of Hoffman's habeas petition on his claims of ineffective assistance of counsel with respect to sentencing still stands. The State of Idaho should proceed with the resentencing of Hoffman as ordered by the district court.

How nice. They "instruct" the district court to do substantially what it did correctly the first time before they mucked it up.