Legal Opinion
In Re Brown
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 15, 1978No. Crim. 17048PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CALDWELL, J. *
On February 27, 1977, David Ray Brown, a prisoner in San Quentin State Prison, filed a petition for habeas corpus in the Superior Court of Marin County contending that the penalty provision of the statute under which he was sentenced was unconstitutional insofar as it provided for a three-year minimum period for eligibility for parole. The People have appealed from an order of the trial court invalidating the three-year provision, and the trial court stayed execution of its order pending this appeal. All of the proceedings in the trial court were completed before July 1,…
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