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STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Waldo SHORT v. Frank C. BLACKBURN, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.
    No. 85-KH-1802.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    May 12, 1986.
   In re Short, Waldo, applying for remedial writs from the Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans, Nos. 229-163, 205-383, 184-325.

Granted. The case is remanded to the district court for an evidentiary hearing to determine whether relator’s life sentence as a multiple offender constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. See Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277, 103 S.Ct. 3001, 77 L.Ed.2d 637 (1983).

MARCUS and BLANCHE, JJ., dissent from the order.