James John Makal v. State of Arizona and Harold G. Cardwell, Superintendent, Arizona State Prison

How courts have described this case

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• holding time spent in a state mental hospital was not intended as “punishment for the commission of a crime” and, thus, was not confinement and did not require credit
• noting in course of denying defendant’s equal protection challenge “we cannot find that [defendant’s] stay at the hospital was a part of his punishment for the commission of a crime.”
• “So long as the type of punishment is not based upon any proscribed federal grounds such as being cruel and unusual, racially or ethnically motivated, or enhanced by indigency, the penalties for violations of state statutes are matters of state concern.”
• “So long as the type of punishment is not based upon any proscribed federal grounds such as being cruel and unusual, racially or 27 | ethnically motivated, or enhanced by indigency, the penalties for violations of state statutes are matters of state concern.”
• “So long as the type of 5 punishment is not based upon any proscribed federal grounds such as being cruel and 6 unusual, racially or ethnically motivated, or enhanced by indigency, the penalties for 7 violations of state statutes are matters of state concern.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).