Livingston v. State
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Finding this to be a rare and exceptional criminal case, the Supreme Court reduced Defendant’s sentence pursuant to Appellate Rule 7(B), holding that the sentence imposed was inappropriate in light of Defendant’s offenses and character.
Defendant pled guilty to multiple drug charges and admitted to being a habitual substance offender. The trial court sentenced Defendant to an aggregate sentence of thirty years to be served in the Indiana Department of Correction. The court of appeals affirmed. The Supreme Court granted Defendant’s petition to transfer and reduced Defendant’s sentence to the mandatory minimum of twenty-three years with the time remaining to be served in community corrections, holding that this was an exceptional case and that Defendant’s sentence was inappropriate given Defendant’s character and offenses committed.
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