WARK v. ROBBINS

No. 71-1377.

458 F.2d 1295 (1972)

Burton Andrew WARK, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Allan L. ROBBINS, Warden, Maine State Prison, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 12, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Nichols, Camden, Me., for appellant.

Charles R. Larouche, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTREE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

With a deft touch, fate finds us deciding our first equal protection case since Congressional passage of the Equal Rights Amendment at the behest of a male seeking the same rights as those bestowed on females. In this case, coming to us on appeal from denial of a petition for habeas corpus by the district court, a Maine prisoner who escaped from State Prison and thereafter received a six to twelve year sentence (which could have been "for any...

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