THOMPSON

v.

VERMILLION ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Frazier v. Manson, 703 F.2d 30 (2d Cir. 1983)
  …43 L.Ed.2d 789 (1975); cf. Marshall v. United States, 414 U.S. 417, 422, 94 S.Ct. 700, 704, 38 L.Ed.2d 618 (1974); see also Haag v. Ward, 632 F. 2d 206, 208 (2d Cir.1980) (per curiam); Dillard v. LaVallee, 559 F. 2d 873, 874 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 999, 98 S.Ct. 641, 54 L.Ed.2d 495 (1977). While good time credits do affect the length of incarceration, implicating a protected liberty interest, cf. Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539, 556-57, 94 S.Ct. 2963, 2974-75, 41 L.Ed.2d 935 (1974), the state’s…
• Haag v. Ward, 632 F.2d 206 (2d Cir. 1980)
  …r the distinction is rationally based rather than whether it served a compelling state interest. Marshall v. United States, 414 U.S. 417, 422, 94 S.Ct. 700, 704, 38 L.Ed.2d 618 (1974); Dillard v. LaVallee, 559 F. 2d 873, 874 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 999, 98 S.Ct. 641, 54 L.Ed.2d 495 (1977). That a rational basis exists for treating the two situations differently is readily apparent. The New York legislature may well have concluded, for instance, that a person who commits a second felony after he…