James Robert McQueary v. James Blodgett, Superintendent, Wsp Corrections, Dept of Indeterminate Sentencing Review Board

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• concluding that in the face of an equal protection challenge, a review of a sentencing system where two sets of prisoners were sentenced under two separate statutes was reviewed for “a rational relation to [a] governmental purpose”
• rejecting a state prisoner’s equal protection claim when he received a longer sentence than other prisoners
• “There must be an allegation of invidiousness or illegitimacy in the statutory scheme before a cognizable claim arises.”
• “The writ of habeas corpus exists precisely to allow federal-based challenges to state law.”
• “Inmates are 25 not entitled to identical treatment as other inmates merely because they are all inmates.”
• “Inmates are not entitled to identical 23 treatment as other inmates merely because they are all inmates.”

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