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STATE v. BOLDEN

No. 151, Sept. Term, 1998.

737 A.2d 1086 (1999)

356 Md. 160

STATE of Maryland v. Kevin Lamont BOLDEN.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 23, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Celia Anderson Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Martha Weisheit, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for Respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, and ROBERT L. KARWACKI (Retired, specially assigned), JJ.

KARWACKI, Judge.

The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution mandates: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted."1 In Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277, 284, 103 S.Ct. 3001, 3006, 77 L.Ed.2d 637, 645 (1983), the Supreme Court held that this protection "prohibits not only barbaric...

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