Legal Opinion
Jones v. Bruce
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided March 28, 1996No. 95-3147-DESPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SAFFELS, Senior District Judge.
This matter is before the court upon a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner challenges the limited retroactivity provision of the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act, K.S.A. 21-4724, as violative of his equal protection rights.
In April of 1985, petitioner was sentenced to concurrent terms of not less than three years nor more than ten years on one count of the sale of marijuana, one year for possession of marijuana, and not less than one year nor more than five years on each of three separate counts of…
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