Court Opinion

ID: 9744191
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:56:39.291006+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:47.348345
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SULLIVAN, Judge,
concurring.
I concur ¡because we are bound by Greer v. State (1997) Ind., 685 N.E.2d 700, with regard to attempted belated appeals from a denial of credit time following revocation of probation. .1 am not of the view that Greer, or the seminal case upon which it relies, Howard v. State (1995) Ind., 653 N.E.2d 1389, must be read to prohibit all belated appeals except from direct appeals from the conviction itself. Although the 1994 amendment to the P.C. Rule provides for a belated appeal from the conviction itself, it does not necessarily preclude belated appeals in other appropriate situations.
As I read the case law to date, the thrust of the policy consideration underlying the legal principle involved is that persons, who through no fault of their own have been unable to effect a timely direct appeal, may be afforded relief, albeit belatedly. I-therefore conclude that neither Howard, nor its progeny, preclude a belated direct appeal from such final and appealable judgments as a judgment which itself revokes probation, as opposed to an order which denies credit time following a revocation.