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Daniel Warren MORGAN, Appellant, v. George A. BRESCHER, Sheriff, Appellee. Karen Ann KIELB, Appellant, v. George A. BRESCHER, Sheriff, Appellee.
    Nos. 84-1457, 84-1458.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    April 10, 1985.
    Rehearing Denied April 30, 1985.
    R.H. Bo Hitchcock of Hitchcock & Cunningham, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellants.
    Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Penny H. Brill, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

We affirm and in so doing reject appellants’ claim that the minimum mandatory sentences provided for in the drug trafficking statute, section 893.135, Florida Statutes (1983), violate the federal constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishments as construed in Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277, 103 S.Ct. 3001, 77 L.Ed.2d 637 (1983). Also see State v. Benitez, 395 So.2d 514 (Fla.1981) and Carmona v. Ward, 576 F.2d 405 (2d Cir.1978), cert. denied 439 U.S. 1091, 99 S.Ct. 874, 59 L.Ed.2d 58 (1979).

ANSTEAD, C.J., and DOWNEY and WALDEN, JJ., concur.