Vaidik, J.
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Here, it is apparent that the State did not present a proper judgment of conviction for Dexter’s 2000 felony theft conviction at the November 2012 habitual-offender retrial because the judgment of conviction was not signed by the judge. In lieu of a signed judgment of conviction, the State presented the certified transcript from Dexter’s May 2000 guilty-plea and sentencing hearing. [Footnote omitted.] Although our Supreme Court held that the unsigned order entering judgment of conviction was not sufficient to prove the existence of Dexter’s 2000 felony theft conviction, it did not rule out other methods of proving the existence of this conviction. In fact, our Supreme Court evaluated the other evidence that the State used in the first trial—the rules-of-probation form, the 2005 PSI, and the probation officer’s testimony—but found that this evidence was not probative of Dexter’s 2000 felony theft conviction.
As our Supreme Court held in the previous appeal in this case, “For almost 30 years, this Court has held that the State must introduce into evidence proper certified and authenticated records of the defendant’s prior felony convictions in order to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of those prior convictions.” Dexter, 959 N.E.2d at 238. At Dexter’s habitual-offender retrial, the State admitted into evidence the certified transcript from Dexter’s May 2000 guilty-plea and sentencing hearing, which it did not present at Dexter’s first trial and therefore the Supreme Court did not evaluate in the prior appeal in this case. At Dexter’s May 2000 guilty-plea and sentencing hearing, a factual basis for felony theft was established and then the trial court accepted Dexter’s guilty plea, entered judgment of conviction, and sentenced him. State’s Ex. 1, p. 9. Accordingly, we find that the certified transcript from Dexter’s May 2000 guilty-plea and sentencing hearing is sufficient to establish the fact of his 2000 felony theft conviction. See Woods v. State, 939 N.E.2d 676 (Ind. Ct. App. 2010), trans. denied.
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KIRSCH, J., and PYLE, J., concur.