California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Ochoa, H039529 (Cal. App. 2015):
Defendant has not shown that the legislative distinctions implicate any fundamental right or involves a suspect classification. "Where, as here, a statute involves neither a suspect class nor a fundamental right, it need only meet minimum equal protection standards, and survive 'rational basis review.' (People v. Wilkinson (2004) 33 Cal.4th 821, 836.)" (People v. Turnage (2012) 55 Cal.4th 62, 74; see People v. Wilkinson, supra, at pp. 836-838 [rejecting strict scrutiny standard and applying rational basis test to equal protection challenge to provisions criminalizing and punishing battery on a custodial officer].)
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