Title: JAMES C. McFARLANE v. THE STATE OF WYOMING

State: wyoming

Issuer: Wyoming Supreme Court

Document:

JAMES C. McFARLANE v. THE STATE OF WYOMING1989 WY 196781 P.2d 931Case Number: 89-215Decided: 11/02/1989Supreme Court of Wyoming
JAMES C. McFARLANE, 
APPELLANT (DEFENDANT),

v.

THE STATE OF 
WYOMING, 
APPELLEE (PLAINTIFF).

Appeal from the District 
Court, CampbellCounty, Timothy J. Judson, 
J.

James Charles 
McFarlane, pro 
se.

Joseph B. Meyer, 
Atty. Gen., John W. Renneisen, Deputy Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, for appellee.

Before CARDINE, C.J., and THOMAS, URBIGKIT, MACY 
and GOLDEN, JJ.

PER 
CURIAM.

[¶1.]     Appellant, James 
Charles McFarlane, seeks review of an order of the district court denying a pro 
se motion for credit for time served on probation.

[¶2.]     We 
affirm.

[¶3.]     McFarlane pleaded 
guilty to three counts of delivery of a controlled substance pursuant to W.S. 
35-7-1031(a)(ii) and 35-7-1016(d)(ii) on September 6, 1985, and was sentenced to 
probation on February 19, 1986. He violated the terms of his probation on three 
occasions, and although the district court exercised leniency for the first two 
violations, it imposed the formerly suspended penitentiary sentence for the 
third violation since it involved a drug sale.

[¶4.]     Acting pro se, 
McFarlane filed some ten motions from June 15, 1989, to July 24, 1989, seeking a 
reduction in his sentence, a clarification of credit to his sentence for time 
served in the county jail and credit for time on probation. The district court 
explained to McFarlane in correspondence how his jail time was to be credited to 
his prison sentence, but the court otherwise denied his 
motions.

[¶5.]     Although no briefs have 
been filed, it is apparent that the only issue McFarlane could raise here is the 
district court's denial of his motion which was made pursuant to W.R.Cr.P. 36. 
We have previously disposed of such cases summarily and without briefing. Peper 
v. State, 776 P.2d 761 (Wyo. 1989); Mower v. 
State, 770 P.2d 233 (Wyo. 1989).

[¶6.]     Under W.R.Cr.P. 36, a 
district court may reduce a sentence within one year after a sentence is imposed 
or probation is revoked. The district court has broad discretion in determining 
whether to reduce a defendant's sentence, and we will not disturb its 
determination absent an abuse of discretion. Mower v. State, 750 P.2d 679 
(Wyo. 1988). 
Further, no requirement exists, either constitutionally or statutorily, that a 
court must take into account time served on probation following a probation 
revocation. United States v. 
Shead, 568 F.2d 678, 682-83 (10th Cir. 1978); and Thomas v. United States, 327 F.2d 795, 796-97 (10th Cir. 
1964), cert. denied, 377 U.S. 1000, 84 S. Ct. 1936, 12 L. Ed. 2d 1051. See also Loper v. Shillinger, 772 P.2d 552, 553 (Wyo. 1989). Here, there 
is no showing that the court's denial of McFarlane's motion was not a sound 
exercise of discretion.

[¶7.]     Affirmed.