COPE, J.
We treat the appeal of Charles W. Sanders as a petition for writ of certiorari, and deny it.
Defendant/petitioner Sanders was convicted in 1972 of a forcible rape of a ten-year-old girl, a capital felony, see § 794.01, Fla. Stat. (1971), and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Under the laws in effect at that time, this is a parole-eligible sentence.
Several years later the legislature enacted the Objective Parole Guidelines Act...
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