A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered a new sentencing hearing for convicted police killer and death-row activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, finding for a second time that the death-penalty instructions given to the jury at his 1982 trial were potentially misleading.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered prosecutors to conduct the new sentencing hearing within six months or agree to a life sentence. Abu-Jamal’s first-degree murder conviction nonetheless stands in the fatal shooting of Officer Daniel Faulkner.

Prosecutors said they were considering another appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“We continue to maintain that granting this new sentencing hearing is contrary to clearly established precedent of the United States Supreme Court,” District Attorney Seth Williams said in a statement.

Abu-Jamal’s lawyer, Widener University law professor Judith Ritter, did not immediately return a call to The Associated Press.

Tuesday’s ruling is the latest in Abu-Jamal’s long-running legal saga.

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