Case Title: Kathleen Peterink v. State of Indiana

Citation: 

Docket Number: 57S03-1302-CR-136

State: indiana

Court: Indiana Supreme Court

Date: 2013-02-20T00:00:00Z

Document:
ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANT 
Jill M. Acklin 
Westfield, Indiana 
 
ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE 
Gregory F. Zoeller 
Attorney General of Indiana 
 
James Thomas Whitehead 
Deputy Attorney General 
Indianapolis, Indiana 
 
 
In the 
Indiana Supreme Court  
No. 57S03-1302-CR-136 
KATHLEEN PETERINK, 
Appellant (Defendant below), 
v. 
STATE OF INDIANA, 
Appellee (Plaintiff below). 
Appeal from the Noble Superior Court, No. 1 
The Honorable Robert E. Kirsch, Judge 
On Petition to Transfer from the Indiana Court of Appeals, No. 57A03-1112-CR-586 
February 20, 2013 
Massa, Justice. 
Appellant Kathleen Peterink pleaded guilty to Possession of Marijuana as a Class A 
misdemeanor.  The trial court sentenced her to one year imprisonment, suspended the sentence 
entirely, and placed her on probation for one year, six months of which was to be served on 
home detention.   
FILED
CLERK
of the supreme court,
court of appeals and
tax court
Feb 20 2013, 11:25 am
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Contrary to statutory authority,1 the trial court also ordered that Peterink would not 
receive good time credit for her term of home detention.  On appeal, the State conceded error and 
the Court of Appeals remanded with instructions to amend the sentencing order to allow for 
credit time.  Peterink v. State, 971 N.E.2d 735, 737–38 (Ind. 2012).  Today, we grant transfer and 
summarily affirm that portion of the opinion below.  Ind. Appellate Rule 58(A)(2). 
However, the Court of Appeals also found error in the trial court’s sentence of one year 
suspended with a year’s probation, citing its past precedent in Jennings v. State, 956 N.E.2d 203 
(Ind. Ct. App. 2011), clarified on reh’g, 962 N.E.2d 1260 (Ind. Ct. App. 2012), trans. granted, 
974 N.E.2d 1020 (table).  Our decision today in Jennings v. State, No. 53S01-1209-CR-526, slip 
op. (Ind. February 20, 2013), dictates that the trial court be affirmed in this regard.  We thus 
uphold the suspended sentence, with probation, but remand with instructions to allow for credit 
time for home detention. 
Dickson, C.J., and Rucker, David, and Rush, J.J., concur. 
 
                                                 
1 Ind. Code §§ 35-38-2.5-5 (2008) and 35-50-6-6 (2008).