Maddox v. State

On remand from our supreme court, we are ordered to consider the following issue in light of Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277, 103 S.Ct. 3001,77 L.Ed.2d 637 (1983): Whether the trial court abused its discretion in sentencing Maddox to fifteen years' imprisonment1 while sentencing Callahan and Gillum to three and four years' imprisonment, respectively.

In Solem, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional an enhanced sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole imposed on a defendant who pleaded guilty to passing a bad $100 check after having been convicted for six nonviolent…