Angela R. Neal v. State of Indiana

NAJAM, Judge.

Statement of the Case

[1] Indiana Code Section 35-38-1-7.8(c) (2016) provides that, “[u]pon determining that a defendant is a credit restricted felon, a court shall advise the defendant of the consequences of this determination.” In this appeal, Angela R. Neal 1 presents a question of first impression: whether the trial court’s advisement of the consequences of Neal’s status as a credit-restricted felon complied with Section 7.8(c), We conclude that the trial court’s advisement substantially complied with Section 7.8(c) and that there is no particular language that a trial court…