In Re the Personal Restraint of Knapp

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• extending Phelan to apply to time spent confined in a state mental hospital
• extending Phelan to apply to time spent confined in a state mental hospital
• “[L]ike confinement in a prison or jail, a person committed to a mental hospital pursuant to a valid criminal conviction is subject to a massive curtailment of liberty.”
• “The equal protection clause requires that persons similarly situated with respect to the legitimate purposes of the laws receive like treatment.”
• “If the Legislature recognizes that one member of the class should receive credit the equal protection clause mandates that all members should receive credit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).