Chapell v. State

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Jeffrey Dale Chapell filed a motion for post-conviction relief (PCR) to challenge his sentence. Chapell had pled guilty to three counts of sexual battery of a child and two counts of fondling a child and was sentenced to three concurrent twenty-five-year terms in prison, followed by two concurrent fifteen-year terms of post-release supervision. In his PCR motion he argued the sentencing court: (1) lacked jurisdiction to impose his sentence; (2) imposed a grossly disproportional sentence, in violation of his Eighth Amendment rights; and (3) failed to credit him…