OPINION
BRADFORD, Judge.Appellant/Defendant Samuel Hardley appeals from his convictions of and sentences imposed for Class D felony Criminal Confinement1 and Class A misdemean- or Battery.2 Hardley contends that the State failed to produce sufficient evidence to sustain his conviction for criminal confinement and that that conviction and his battery conviction violate prohibitions against double jeopardy. The State cross-appeals, contending that the trial court erred in ordering sentences Hardley received in two different cause numbers to be served concurrently. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand with instructions.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On August 24, 2006, Hardley stole approximately $528-worth of alcoholic beverages, steaks, and clothing from a Meijer’s store in Indianapolis. On August 25, 2006, the State charged Harley with theft in cause number 49F08-0608-FD-159522 (“Cause 159522”), and the trial court released him on his own recognizance.
At approximately 2:00 to 3:00 a.m. on September 13, 2006, while Hardley was still released on his own recognizance in Cause 159522, Ethel Richmond let him into her Indianapolis apartment. When Richmond awoke at 6:00 a.m. to prepare to go to work, Hardley was still asleep in a recliner. When Richmond, who was out of cigarettes, apparently took one of Hard-ley’s, Hardley accused her of stealing from his backpack. Richmond then told Hard-ley and Norma Bailey, who was also staying in her apartment, that they had to leave because she was going to work.
Hardley told Richmond that he was not going anywhere and, ‘You stole something out of my backpack, bitch.” Tr. p. 24. Hardley slapped Richmond, who fell onto a mattress. At that point, Hardley began to beat Richmond and restrained her such she could not stand up. While he had Richmond restrained, Hardley beat and kicked her in the chest and stomach. Richmond nonetheless managed to reach a telephone and, although she was unable to speak, she dialed 911 such that authorities were apparently able to hear the altercation. Hardley ran off when Bailey told him that police were on their way but was soon apprehended. As a result of the attack, Richmond suffered a swollen lip, *1143some broken fingernails, and a bruise on her arm.
On September 14, 2006, in cause number 49F18-0609-FD-173415 (“Cause 173415”), the State charged Hardley with Class D felony criminal confinement, Class D felony intimidation, and Class A misdemeanor battery, in a charging information that provided, in relevant part, as follows:
COUNT I
Samuel Hardley, on or about September 13, 2006, did knowingly confine Ethel Richmond, without the consent of Ethel Richmond, by holding Ethel Richmond down;
COUNT III
Samuel Hardley, on or about September 13, 2006, did knowingly touch Ethel Richmond in a rude, insolent, or angry manner, that is: struck Ethel Richmond with hands and/or fists, which resulted in bodily injury, that is: pain, redness, swelling, and/or cuts, to Ethel Richmond^]
Appellant’s App. pp. 18-19.
Following a bench trial on May 14, 2007, the trial court found Hardley guilty of criminal confinement and battery. Also on May 14, 2007, in Cause 159522, the trial court found Hardley guilty of Class D felony theft3. The trial court sentenced Hardley to one-and-one-half years of incarceration for theft, and, in Cause 173415, the trial court sentenced him to two years for criminal confinement and one year for battery. Although the State had requested that the sentences from the two cause numbers be served consecutively, the trial court ordered that all three sentences were to be served concurrently.
DISCUSSION AND DECISION
I. Sufficiency of the Evidence to Sustain Criminal Confinement Conviction
Hardley contends that the State failed to establish a substantial enough inference with Richmond’s liberty to sustain a criminal confinement conviction and that her testimony regarding the incident is incredibly dubious. In order to convict Hardley of Class D felony criminal confinement, the State was required to establish that he knowingly or intentionally confined Richmond without her consent. Ind. Code § 35-42-3-3(a)(l). According to statute, confinement requires a substantial interference with the liberty of a person. Ind.Code § 35-42-3-1 (2005).
Our standard of review for challenges to the sufficiency of the evidence supporting a criminal conviction is well-settled:
In reviewing a sufficiency of the evidence claim, the Court neither reweighs the evidence nor assesses the credibility of the witnesses. We look to the evidence most favorable to the [judgment] and reasonable inferences drawn therefrom. We will affirm the conviction if there is probative evidence from which a reasonable [trier of fact] could have found Defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Vitek v. State, 750 N.E.2d 346, 352 (Ind.2001) (citations omitted).
We may, however, apply the ‘incredible dubiosity’ rule to impinge upon a trier of fact’s function to judge the credibility of a witness. Love v. State, 761 N.E.2d 806, 810 (Ind.2002).
If a sole witness presents inherently improbable testimony and there is a complete lack of circumstantial evidence, a *1144defendant’s conviction may be reversed. This is appropriate only where the court has confronted inherently improbable testimony or coerced, equivocal, wholly uncorroborated testimony of incredible dubiosity. Application of this rule is rare and the standard to be applied is whether the testimony is so incredibly dubious or inherently improbable that no reasonable person could believe it.
Love, 761 N.E.2d at 810 (citations omitted).
Hardley contends that he did not substantially interfere with Richmond’s liberty because she was able to reach the telephone and dial 911. Richmond, however, testified that Hardley “had [her] down with [her] arms up[,]” that she could not move or “get up[,]” and that “he had [her] pinned down.” Tr. pp. 24-26. Richmond testified that the telephone was “right there beside the mattress” and that she was able to knock it off the hook and dial 911. In our view, the record indicates that Richmond was able to reach the telephone and dial 911 despite Hardley’s physical confinement of her thanks primarily to the fortuitous location of the device and then only with difficulty. Even after reaching the telephone, Richmond was unable to speak to anyone on the other end of the line. We are unaware of any authority holding that complete incapacitation is required in order to establish a substantial interference with liberty, and decline impose such a requirement today. We do not believe that Richmond’s ability to reach the telephone indicates that her liberty was not substantially impaired.
Hardley also contends that Richmond’s testimony is incredibly dubious in that she testified that he held her arms but that she was able to dial the telephone and that she testified that he had been kneeling but also managed to kick her. Hardley’s argument assumes, however, that the evidence establishes that he held her arms and kneeled throughout the incident. We do not, however, read Richmond’s testimony that way. In our view, the evidence establishes a somewhat fluid struggle, with Hardley standing or kneeling at different times and restraining Richmond in, perhaps, various ways, one of which was holding her arms. Hardley’s argument in this regard is merely an invitation to reweigh the evidence, one that we decline.
II. Double Jeopardy
In Richardson v. State, 717 N.E.2d 32 (Ind.1999), the Indiana Supreme Court held “that two or more offenses are the ‘same offense’ in violation of Article I, Section 14 of the Indiana Constitution, if, with respect to ... the actual evidence used to convict, the essential elements of one challenged offense also establish the essential elements of another challenged offense.” Id. at 49-50. The Richardson court stated the actual evidence test as follows:
To show that two challenged offenses constitute the “same offense” in a claim of double jeopardy, a defendant must demonstrate a reasonable possibility that the evidentiary facts used by the fact-finder to establish the essential elements of one offense may also have been used to establish the essential elements of a second challenged offense.
Id. at 53. The Indiana Supreme Court has also explained that, when applying the actual evidence test, the question
is not merely whether the evidentiary facts used to establish one of the essential elements of one offense may also have been used to establish one of the essential elements of a second challenged offense. In other words, under the Richardson actual evidence test, the Indiana Double Jeopardy Clause is not violated when the evidentiary facts establishing the essential elements of one *1145offense also establish only one or even several, but not all, of the essential elements of a second offense.
Spivey v. State, 761 N.E.2d 831, 833 (Ind.2002). In determining what evidence the trier of fact used to establish the essential elements of an offense, “we consider the evidence, charging information, final jury instructions ... and arguments of counsel.” Rutherford v. State, 866 N.E.2d 867, 871 (Ind.Ct.App.2007).
Here, we do not believe there is a reasonable possibility that the trial court used the same actual evidence to find that Hardley committed battery and criminal confinement. In reaching this conclusion, we consider both the charging information and evidence presented.4 As charged, the offenses do not share any common essential elements, much less all. For the battery charge, the State specifically alleged that striking with the hands and/or fists was the touching, not any touching that might have restrained Richmond. As for the criminal confinement charge, the State specifically alleged that Hardley restrained Richmond by holding her down, not through any physical blows. The evidence clearly supports these specific charges and establishes that Hardley slapped, punched, and kicked Richmond (evidence supporting the battery charge) and also that he held her down (evidence supporting the criminal confinement charge). The fact that the crimes might have taken place simultaneously is not dispositive in the Richardson actual evidence analysis. The only question is whether the fact-finder relied on different evidentiary facts to support the two convictions, and we conclude that here it did. Hardley’s convictions for criminal confinement and battery do not violate the Richardson actual evidence test.
III. Consecutive Sentences5
On cross-appeal, the State contends that the trial court erred in failing to order that Hardley’s sentences in Causes 159522 and 173415 be served consecutively. As an initial matter, the dissent argues that the State should not have been able to raise this issue on cross-appeal. In so doing, the dissent first concludes that the State waived the issue by failing to lodge a contemporaneous objection. We decline to conclude, however, that the waiver doctrine precludes the State from raising the issue. It is well-settled that an illegal sentence constitutes fundamental error.
Generally, a failure to object to error in a proceeding, and thus preserve an issue on appeal, results in waiver. However, a court may remedy an unpreserved error when it determines the trial court committed fundamental error. An improper sentence constitutes fundamental error and “cannot be ignored on review.” We may correct sentencing errors by the trial court on appeal even though the issue was not raised below.
Groves v. State, 823 N.E.2d 1229, 1232 (Ind.Ct.App.2005) (citations omitted). We cannot ignore an illegal sentence, even if the State did fail to properly preserve the issue.
The dissent also relies on this court’s ruling in Hoggatt v. State, 805 N.E.2d 1281 (Ind.Ct.App.2004), to conclude that the State must act within thirty days if it *1146seeks to correct an illegal sentence. In that case, the trial court erroneously imposed concurrent sentences where Hog-gatt had committed crimes while released on bond in another cause number. Id. at 1282. As a result, Hoggatt’s sentence was 514 days shorter than it should have been. Id. Approximately one year following Hog-gatt’s release, the State filed a motion to correct erroneous sentence, which the trial court granted, also ordering that Hoggatt be taken back into custody. Id. On appeal, we reversed the trial court, concluding that a motion to correct error was not an appropriate vehicle for correcting such an error, because Hoggatt’s sentence was not erroneous on its face. Id. at 1283-84. We concluded that the opportunity for correction of such an error by the State would be limited to challenges brought within thirty days. Id. at 1284.
To the extent, however, that Hoggatt suggests that the State must challenge an illegal sentence within thirty days, we decline to follow it. In our view, the crucial question is not whether the issue is raised within thirty days, but whether it is raised on direct appeal. While it is true that direct appeals generally must be initiated within thirty days of the challenged judgment or order, see Ind. Appellate Rules 8, 14, imposition of a rigid thirty-day deadline in this context leads to absurd results. First and foremost, concluding that the State must raise such a claim within thirty days would leave the State entirely without remedy. Indiana Code section 35-38-4-2 governs the types of rulings from which the State may initiate a direct appeal in criminal cases, and an erroneous sentence is not listed among them. In other words, strict adherence to Hoggatt would require the State to do something it cannot legally do.
Second, the Hoggatt court relied on Robinson v. State, 805 N.E.2d 783 (Ind.2004), for the proposition that a sentence challenge by the State must be filed within thirty days. Robinson, however, does not stand for that proposition, requiring only that a challenge to a sentence defect not facially apparent “may be raised only on direct appeal[,]” not that the challenge must be brought within thirty days. Id. at 787. We conclude that the State may challenge an illegal sentence in a cross-appeal,6 even when the defect is not facially apparent. As such, we conclude that the State’s challenge to Hardley’s sentence is properly before this court.
Turning to the merits of the State’s claim, Indiana Code section (d) provides, in relevant part, that “[i]f, after being arrested for one (1) crime, a person commits another crime ... upon the person’s own recognizance!,] the terms of imprisonment for the crimes shall be served consecutively, regardless of the order in which the crimes are tried and sentences are imposed.” We agree with the State that the sentences from the two cause numbers are required to be served consecutively and that the trial court erred in ordering otherwise. We reverse and remand with instructions to order that Hard-ley’s sentences from Causes 159522 and 173415 be served consecutively.
*1147The judgment of the trial court is affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with instructions.
MATHIAS, J., concurs. SULLIVAN, S.J., dissents with opinion.. Ind.Code § 35-42-3-3(a)(l) (2005).
. Ind.Code § 35-42-2-l(a)(l)(A) (2005).
. Hardley does not challenge his theft conviction.
. Neither party made opening statements or final arguments, and there are, of course, no jury instructions in a bench trial.
. Hardley does not directly respond to the State’s cross-appeal issue in his reply brief, but, rather, seems to argue for the first time that he is entitled to immediate release from the Department of Correction because he has already served his sentence. Because “[n]o new issues shall be raised in a reply brieff,]" we will not address this argument in this appeal. Ind. Appellate Rule 46(C).
. We are unaware of any circumstances under which a cross-appeal issue is treated any differently than one raised by the appellant, and the Indiana Rules of Appellate Procedure support equal treatment. Indiana Appellate Rule 9(D) provides that an appellee may cross-appeal without filing a notice of appeal by raising the cross-appeal issues in its appel-lee's brief. Once raised, cross-appeal issues are treated identically to issues raised by the appellant. See Ind. Appellate Rule 46(D). Moreover, as with the imposition of a thirty-day deadline, concluding that a cross-appeal issue is not part of a “direct appeal” would leave the State without remedy in cases such as this.