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IN RE GEORGE

No. 45171.

90 Wn.2d 90 (1978)

579 P.2d 354

In the Matter of the Personal Restraint of LAWRENCE E. GEORGE, Petitioner.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

May 25, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen Ressler and Richard Emery, for petitioner.

Slade Gorton, Attorney General, and William C. Collins, Assistant, for respondent.

ROSELLINI, J.

The petitioner was convicted of first-degree murder in 1964 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He escaped from a minimum security building at the state penitentiary in 1976. RCW 9.95.115 provides a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years, less earned good time credit, for persons sentenced to life imprisonment. With good time credit, the petitioner would have been eligible for parole within a year and a half had he not escaped. He was recaptured...

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