WINTER, Chief Judge:
Louis Mann, Superintendent of the Shawangunk Correctional Facility, appeals from Judge Scullin's grant of a writ of habeas corpus to David Griffin, Jr. The district court held that the persistent felony offender statute, New York Penal Law § 70.10, violates the Equal Protection clause because it defines predicate convictions more broadly than does the second felony offender statute, New York Penal Law § 70.06. Assuming that the distinctions...
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