{"id":900,"date":"2016-05-25T03:11:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T03:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2023-08-10T11:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T11:03:56","slug":"indiana-code-criminal-sentencing-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/2016\/05\/25\/indiana-code-criminal-sentencing-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Indiana Code Criminal Sentencing Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\u201ccustom_h1\u201d\"><strong>Indiana Code Criminal Sentencing Guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starting in 2014, Indiana changed how it classifies felonies. Rather than the old A-D Class felonies, you can now expect Levels 1-6 for allegations filed after July 1, 2014. Here&#8217;s how the sentencing ranges work for old and new charges.<\/p>\n<p>Old Felony Classification (Before July 1, 2014)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Murder: 45-65 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>Class A Felony: 20-50 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>Class B Felony: 6-20 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>Class C Felony: 2-8 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>Class D Felony: 6 months-3 years in prison<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Felony Classification (After July 1, 2014)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Murder: 45-65 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>Level 1 Felony: 20-40 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>Level 2 Felony: 10-30 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>Level 3 Felony: 3-16 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>Level 4 Felony: 2-12 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>Level 5 Felony: 1-6 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>Level 6 Felony: 6 months-2.5 years in prison<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, under the new code you will now serve 75% of your sentence for any offense Level 5 felony and up. Level 6 felonies, along with misdemeanors, still require you to serve 50% of your sentence. \u00a0Under the old code you would do half of a sentence. Now that only applies to low level offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Code Criminal Sentencing Guidelines Starting in 2014, Indiana changed how it classifies felonies. Rather than the old A-D Class felonies, you can now expect Levels 1-6 for allegations filed after July 1, 2014. Here&#8217;s how the sentencing ranges work for old and new charges. Old Felony Classification (Before July 1, 2014) Murder: 45-65 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}