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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF IDAHO

Docket No. 43811

STATE OF IDAHO,

Plaintiff-Respondent,

v.

CHASE ALLEN LAGERS,

Defendant-Appellant.

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2016 Unpublished Opinion No. 712

Filed: September 30, 2016

Stephen W. Kenyon, Clerk

THIS IS AN UNPUBLISHED

OPINION AND SHALL NOT

BE CITED AS AUTHORITY

Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, State of Idaho, Ada

County. Hon. Deborah A. Bail, District Judge. 

Judgment of conviction and unified sentence of seven years, with a minimum 

period of confinement of two years, affirmed; order relinquishing jurisdiction, 

affirmed. 

Eric D. Fredericksen, Interim State Appellate Public Defender; Brian R. Dickson, 

Deputy Appellate Public Defender, Boise, for appellant. 

Hon. Lawrence G. Wasden, Attorney General; Lori A. Fleming, Deputy Attorney 

General, Boise, for respondent. 

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Before MELANSON, Chief Judge; GUTIERREZ, Judge;

and HUSKEY, Judge

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PER CURIAM 

Chase Allen Lagers was found guilty of possession of a controlled substance. I.C. § 37-

2732(c). The district court sentenced Lagers to a unified term of seven years, with a minimum 

period of confinement of two years. Lagers expressed some concern about the rider program and 

requested that the district court order execution of his sentence if the district court chose not to 

order probation. The district court determined that probation was not appropriate and retained 

jurisdiction. The district court later relinquished jurisdiction. Lagers appeals from his judgment 
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of conviction, asserting that his sentence is excessive1and appeals from the order relinquishing 

jurisdiction, claiming that the district court erred by refusing to grant probation. 

Sentencing is a matter for the trial court’s discretion. Both our standard of review and the 

factors to be considered in evaluating the reasonableness of the sentence are well established and 

need not be repeated here. See State v. Hernandez, 121 Idaho 114, 117-18, 822 P.2d 1011, 1014-

15 (Ct. App. 1991); State v. Lopez, 106 Idaho 447, 449-51, 680 P.2d 869, 871-73 (Ct. App. 

1984); State v. Toohill, 103 Idaho 565, 568, 650 P.2d 707, 710 (Ct. App. 1982). When reviewing 

the length of a sentence, we consider the defendant’s entire sentence. State v. Oliver, 144 Idaho 

722, 726, 170 P.3d 387, 391 (2007). Applying these standards, and having reviewed the record 

in this case, we cannot say that the district court abused its discretion.

We note that the decision to place a defendant on probation or whether, instead, to 

relinquish jurisdiction over the defendant is a matter within the sound discretion of the district 

court and will not be overturned on appeal absent an abuse of that discretion. State v. Hood, 102 

Idaho 711, 712, 639 P.2d 9, 10 (1981); State v. Lee, 117 Idaho 203, 205-06, 786 P.2d 594, 596-

97 (Ct. App. 1990). The record in this case shows that the district court properly considered the 

information before it and determined that probation was not appropriate. Lagers argues that all 

of the relevant goals of sentencing could have been accomplished with probation. As noted 

above, however, the district court found that probation was not an appropriate course of action in 

Lagers’s case. The record does not indicate that the district court abused its discretion in 

relinquishing jurisdiction.

Therefore, Lagers’s judgment of conviction and sentence and the district court’s order 

relinquishing jurisdiction are affirmed.

 

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Lagers was also found guilty of and sentenced for misdemeanor possession of drug 

paraphernalia. However, he does not challenge this judgment of conviction or sentence on 

appeal.