IN RE EVANS

Docket No. E018197.

49 Cal.App.4th 1263 (1996)

In re DICK G. EVANS on Habeas Corpus.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Two.

October 3, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Ralph S. Greer for Petitioner.

Grover Trask, District Attorney, and Kelton A. Tobler, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.


OPINION

McKINSTER, J.

This petition raises the issue1 of whether Penal Code section 12021, subdivision (c) unconstitutionally discriminates among various classes of persons who are subject to a 10-year prohibition on possessing firearms as a consequence of misdemeanor convictions.2 We conclude that it does. In order to preserve as much of the legislative intent as possible...

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