Case Name: Roger Trenton DAVIS, Appellee, v. Jack F. DAVIS, Director, Virginia State Department of Corrections, and R. M. Muncy, Superintendent, Powhatan Correctional Center, Appellants
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1981-04-07
Citations: 646 F.2d 123
Docket Number: No. 77-1782
Parties: Roger Trenton DAVIS, Appellee, v. Jack F. DAVIS, Director, Virginia State Department of Corrections, and R. M. Muncy, Superintendent, Powhatan Correctional Center, Appellants.
Judges: Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and WINTER, BUTZNER, RUSSELL, WIDENER, HALL, PHILLIPS, MURNA-GHAN, SPROUSE and ERVIN, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 646
Pages: 123–125

Head Matter:
Roger Trenton DAVIS, Appellee, v. Jack F. DAVIS, Director, Virginia State Department of Corrections, and R. M. Muncy, Superintendent, Powhatan Correctional Center, Appellants.
No. 77-1782.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Argued Oct. 7, 1980.
Decided April 7, 1981.
James E. Kulp, Deputy Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants.
Edward L. Hogshire,’Charlottesville, Va. (Paxson, Smith, Boyd, Gilliam & Gouldman, P. C.; John C. Lowe, Lowe & Gordon, Ltd., Charlottesville, Va., on brief), for appellee.
Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and WINTER, BUTZNER, RUSSELL, WIDENER, HALL, PHILLIPS, MURNA-GHAN, SPROUSE and ERVIN, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
The petitioner, a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia, was convicted on charges of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of marijuana, and received two consecutive sentences of a $10,-000 fine and twenty years imprisonment. The district court granted a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that these sentences were so disproportionate to the offenses as to constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 432 F.Supp. 444 (W.D.Va.1977). A panel of this court reversed. 585 F.2d 1226 (4th Cir. 1978).
Upon rehearing en banc on the motion of the petitioner, this court affirmed the district court's judgment. 601 F.2d 153 (4th Cir. 1979). The Supreme Court granted the respondent's petition for a writ of certiorari, vacated this court's judgment and remanded the case for further consideration in light of Rummel v. Estelle, 445 U.S. 263, 100 S.Ct. 1133, 63 L.Ed.2d 382 (1980).
The judgment of the district court is affirmed on an equal division of the en banc court.
AFFIRMED.