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LAMBDIN v. SUPERINTENDENT, CAL. CORRECTIONAL INST.

No. 80-4054.

640 F.2d 245 (1981)

William McDowell LAMBDIN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. SUPERINTENDENT, CALIFORNIA CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, TEHACHAPI, CALIFORNIA, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided February 20, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William McDowell Lambdin, Tehachapi, Cal., pro se.

Ramon M. de la Guardia, Deputy Atty. Gen., George Deukmejian, Atty. Gen., Sacramento, Cal., on briefs, for respondent-appellee.

Before MERRILL and NORRIS, Circuit Judges, and QUACKENBUSH, District Judge.

MERRILL, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is taken by a state prisoner from denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Appellant contends that when the California Community Release Board (now the Board of Prison Terms) fixed his release date, it violated rights bestowed on him by the United States Constitution. The case arises under California's new determinate sentence law (DSL), and involves California Penal Code § 1170.2, the law...

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