BROWN, J.
. . . Pursuant to the plea agreement, Buchanan was designated a credit restricted felon pursuant to Ind. Code § 35-41-1-5.5. [Footnote omitted.] The court, in sentencing Buchanan, noted in its judgment of conviction that Buchanan was entitled to credit time in the amount of 589 days for time served “plus ninety-eight days good time.” Appellant’s Appendix at 6.
Buchanan argues that “[a]t the time he committed his offenses, [he] did not meet the definition of ‘credit restricted felon’ as he had not yet been convicted of an offense described in I.C. 35-41-1-5.5.” Appellant’s Brief at 8. Buchanan argues that therefore he “was entitled to one day of good time credit for each day served until such time as he met the definition of credit restricted felon,” which equates to “five hundred and eighty-nine days good time credit rather than the ninety-eight days that he was awarded.” Id. at 9.
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After reviewing the relevant statutes and the relevant case law, we find that Buchanan’s argument fails. Again, Ind. Code § 35-50-6-4(b) provides that a credit restricted felon “is initially assigned to Class IV.” (Emphasis added). Although Buchanan did not attain credit restricted felon status until the date of sentencing, the Indiana Code dictates that a term of imprisonment begins on the date of sentencing and credit time earned is at that point calculated by the court and applied against that sentence. Thus, at sentencing Buchanan was identified as a credit restricted felon and was assigned to Class IV, and we conclude that his credit time was therefore calculated accordingly.
Moreover, even if the court had granted Buchanan 589 days of good time credit, as noted in Robinson the Department of Correction possesses the power to modify his credit time, and indeed it may have felt compelled to do so because, under I.C. 35-50-6-4(b), persons who are credit restricted felons are initially assigned to Class IV.
BAKER, J., and KIRSCH, J., concur.