Alberto Baiza Rodriguez, Appellant v. State of Indiana, Appellee.

Summary

The court held that the statutory amendments governing sentence modification did not displace the longstanding rule that a court may modify a sentence imposed under a fixed-term plea agreement only if the modified sentence would have been authorized by the agreement. Because Rodriguez's plea agreement required specific work-release terms and reserved no discretion to alter them, the trial court lacked authority to modify his sentence. The court therefore affirmed the denial of his modification petition.