Alberto Baiza Rodriguez v. State of Indiana

David, Justice.

We granted transfer in this case and a related case, State of Indiana v. Pebble Stafford , 128 N.E.3d 1291 , 2019 WL 3713998 (Ind. 2019) (" Stafford II "), to resolve conflicting opinions from our Court of Appeals concerning recent amendments to Indiana's sentence modification statutes. As a matter of statutory interpretation, we find the decades-old rule of sentence modification remains undisturbed: courts may modify a sentence only if the new sentence would not have violated the terms of the valid plea agreement had the new sentence been originally imposed. Accordingly, we…