EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:
The question is whether sentencing a repeat felony offender to life imprisonment in accordance with Alabama's mandatory Habitual Felony Offender Act ("HFOA" or "Act"), Ala.Code § 13A-5-9 (1975), constitutes an equal protection violation when a co-defendant, who was also a repeat offender, was not sentenced pursuant to the Act. The answer is "no".
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