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FRAZIER v. MANSON

Nos. 772, 773, Dockets 82-2218, 82-2224.

703 F.2d 30 (1983)

Larry FRAZIER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. John R. MANSON, Commissioner of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee. Kenneth SCHAFFER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Carl ROBINSON, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 7, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles D. Gill, Public Defender, Litchfield, Conn., for petitioners-appellants.

Stephen J. O'Neill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn. (Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen. of the State of Conn., Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for respondents-appellees.

Before MANSFIELD and MESKILL, Circuit Judges, and NEAHER, District Judge.

MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

Larry Frazier and Kenneth Schaffer appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (T. Emmet Clarie, Judge), affirming the dismissal of their consolidated petitions for writs of habeas corpus. The petitions claim that Conn.Gen.Stat. § 18-7a, which increases the good time credit per year for inmates sentenced on or after October 1, 1976, discriminates against prisoners sentenced prior to that...

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