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Denial of Good Time Because of Jury Sentencing Choice Violates Equal Protection

The Fifth Circuit court of appeals held that a sheriff violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when he promulgated a policy of granting good time to county prisoners sentenced by a judge and denying it to prisoners who elected to have a jury sentence them.

Jeffery "Zeal" ...

 

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