Legal Opinion
Terrell Hawkins v. State of Indiana
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided August 28, 2012No. 49A04-1201-CR-12PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GARRARD, Senior Judge.
Terrell Hawkins appeals the denial of his request for educational credit time. We affirm.
Hawkins is incarcerated at the Putnam-ville Correctional Facility. He is serving a twenty-year sentence following a plea of guilty to dealing in cocaine, a Class A felony. Ind.Code § 35-48-4-1 (2001). At Putnamville, Hawkins began taking college courses through Ivy Tech Community College (“Ivy Tech”) for an associate’s degree, with the intention of receiving educational credit time.
In the past, the State of Indiana funded postsecondary education programs in correctional…
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