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IN RE HUFFMAN

Docket No. Crim. 24654.

42 Cal.3d 552 (1986)

724 P.2d 475

229 Cal. Rptr. 789

In re BILLY RAY HUFFMAN on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

September 22, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

David L. McKenna, Public Defender, and Scott H. McCraw, Deputy Public Defender, for Petitioner.

Frank O. Bell, Jr., State Public Defender, Ezra Hendon, Chief Assistant State Public Defender, Linda Feldman, Deputy State Public Defender, Kenneth I. Clayman, Public Defender (Ventura), and Gary R. Nichols, Deputy Public Defender, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, John W. Carney and Jay M. Bloom, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

OPINION

GRODIN, J.

We granted review after the Court of Appeal denied a writ of habeas corpus. The question presented is whether petitioner, once confined for treatment as a mentally disordered sex offender (MDSO), was denied equal protection of the laws when he, unlike offenders confined for treatment as narcotics addicts, received no "conduct" or "participation" credits against a subsequent...

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