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STATE v. DAVIS

No. 142, September Term, 1986.

310 Md. 611 (1987)

530 A.2d 1223

STATE OF MARYLAND v. DREXEL OTTO DAVIS.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 21, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Gary S. Bernstein (Rochlin & Settleman, P.A., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH, McAULIFFE, and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr. (Specially Assigned), JJ.

RODOWSKY, Judge.

In Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277, 103 S.Ct. 3001, 77 L.Ed.2d 637 (1983), the Supreme Court held that the sentence of life imprisonment, without parole, imposed under the facts of that case, violated the principle of proportionality embraced within the eighth amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments. In the case before us Drexel Otto Davis (Davis) was sentenced to life imprisonment, without...

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