Jason E. Morales v. State of Indiana

OPINION

BAKER, Judge.

After the trial court denied appellant-petitioner Jason E. Morales’s motion for placement into the Vanderburgh County Forensic Diversion Program (the Program) 1 on the basis that the Program would not accept any sex offenders, Morales filed a petition for judicial review of the Program’s acceptance criteria. Morales argued that because Indiana Code section 11-12-3.7-12 already provides that persons convicted of certain offenses deemed violent are excluded from placement into post-conviction forensic diversion programs, and not all sex offenses are included in that list,…