Are courts violating the Equal Protection Clause by excluding defendants in plea agreements from mandatory sentencing procedures?

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1. Are courts violating, Fichats provided by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constibution by excluding defendants who enter plea agreements from sentencing statutes Mat establish mandatory procedures for sentencing, defendants in plea agreement cases ? : 2. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide defendants who enter plea agreements the right +o be gentenced in . . accordance with sentencing statutes that expressly mandate procedures for gentencing defendarls in plea agreement cases ° 3, Can the statutory procedures Anat gevern plea agreements be waived by plea agreement ? . . i e. 7