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5 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 18 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from People v. Turnage.

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1 People v. Turnage Anchor
cal · 2012
green “equal protection analysis does not entitle the judiciary to second-guess the wisdom, fairness, or logic of the law.” 5
2 People v. Edwards
calctapp5d · 2019
green “because the legislature made youthful-offender parole hearings available even for first degree murderers (except those who committed murder as an adult and received an lwop sentence), there is no rational basis for excluding one strike defendants from such hearings.” 4
3 People v. Cooper
calctapp · 1996
green “numerous courts have rejected equal protection challenges to the differential treatment of three strikes offenders, concluding that such offenders are not similarly situated to nonrecidivist offenders and/or that a rational basis exists to treat them differently.” 3
4 In re Trejo
calctapp · 2017
green “established a parole eligibility mechanism that provides a person serving a sentence for crimes that he or she committed as a juvenile the opportunity to obtain release when he or she has shown that he or she has been rehabilitated and gained maturity.” 3
5 People v. Foster
cal · 2019
green “the first prerequisite to a meritorious claim under the equal protection clause is a showing that the state has adopted a classification that affects two or more similarly situated groups in an unequal manner.' this initial inquiry is not whether persons are similarly situated f…” 3

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