Lisa Livingston v. State of Indiana

Without a plea agreement, Lisa Livingston pled guilty to multiple drug charges and admitted to being a habitual substance offender. The trial court sentenced Livingston to an aggregate sentence of thirty years to be served in the Indiana Department of Correction. Finding this to be a rare and exceptional case, we grant Livingston's petition to transfer and, pursuant to Appellate Rule 7(B), reduce Livingston's sentence to twenty-three years with the time remaining to be served in community corrections.

In August 2013, police officers received information that Livingston was manufacturing and…