Ivan Vazquez v. State of Indiana

VAIDIK, Chief Judge.

Case Summary

[1] Ivan Vazquez began serving a forty-five-year sentence for felony drug convictions in 2005. Between 2010 and 2014, Vazquez filed three sentence-modification petitions as well as a motion to correct errors, all of which the trial court denied. Vazquez, proceeding pro se, now appeals. One of Vazquez’s claims is that the recently amended sentence-modification statute—Indiana Code section 35-38-1-17— applies to him. Although this Court previously held that Section 35-38-1-17 had no retroactive application, the legislature recently amended the statute to…