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BACON v. PEOPLE OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA

No. 25634.

438 F.2d 637 (1971)

Tommy Leroy BACON, Jerry D. Clark, Edward Ray Fink, Joseph R. Parks, William J. Carroll, Dinnis Robert Maddock, William Bryan Ross, Appellants, v. PEOPLE of the STATE of CALIFORNIA, R. K. Procunier, Director, California Department of Corrections, Mr. John Kerr, Chairman, and all Members and Representatives of California Adult Authority and L. S. Nelson, Warden, San Quentin State Prison, Tamal, California, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

February 9, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tommy Leroy Bacon, in pro per.

Evelle J. Younger, Atty. Gen. of Cal., John T. Murphy, George R. Nock, Deputy Attys. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for appellees.

Before HAMLEY, DUNIWAY and KILKENNY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Appellants, inmates of San Quentin State Prison, appeal from a district court order dismissing their civil rights action with prejudice.

The theory of plaintiffs' action is that California's indeterminate sentence law is unconstitutional. The law is settled to the contrary. See Bennett v. People of State of California, 406 F.2d 36, 38 (9th Cir. 1969).

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