State of Indiana v. Adrian Lotaki

Adrian Lotaki was serving a seventeen-year sentence imposed in 2005 (the “2005 sentence”) 1 when, in 2010, he struck a prison employee in the face. A jury found him guilty of battery with injury, a class D felony, and he was sentenced to an enhanced term of three years. The battery sentence was required to be imposed consecutive to the 2005 sentence. See Ind. Code § 35 — 50—1—2(d)(1) (requiring consecutive sentences when a crime is committed while the person is serving a term of imprisonment for another crime). The trial court ordered a consecutive sentence, but awarded Lotaki 471 days credit…