What is the test for "justly convicted" offenders to be sentenced to a sentence that does not disadvantage a suspect class or infringe upon a fundamental right?
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The following excerpt is from Saldana v. Peery, No. 1:15-cv-00827-DAD-JLT (HC) (E.D. Cal. 2017):
a person who has been justly convicted"). A statutory sentencing scheme that does not disadvantage a suspect class or infringe upon the exercise of a fundamental right, as is the case here, is subject only to rational basis scrutiny. United States v. Harding, 971 F.2d 410, 412 (9th Cir. 1992). It can be disturbed only if the petitioner can prove "that there exist no legitimate grounds to support the classification." Id. at 413.
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