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IN RE MOTA

No. 9842-7-III.

54 Wn. App. 252 (1989)

773 P.2d 129

In the Matter of the Personal Restraint of JULIO MOTA, Petitioner.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Three.

May 28, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julio Mota, pro se.

Kenneth O. Eikenberry, Attorney General, and William L. Williams, Senior Assistant, for respondent.

THOMPSON, C.J.

In this personal restraint petition, Julio Mota challenges the Department of Corrections' failure to give him good-time credit for the 67 days he spent in the county jail prior to sentencing on first degree kidnapping and first degree robbery counts. We hold that for persons sentenced under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1981 (SRA), the equal protection clause requires that the Department make available good-time credit for presentence incarceration as...

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