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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF IDAHO

Docket No. 44034

STATE OF IDAHO,

Plaintiff-Respondent,

v.

CLIFFORD DANIEL SINGER,

Defendant-Appellant.

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2016 Unpublished Opinion No. 772

Filed: November 9, 2016

Stephen W. Kenyon, Clerk

THIS IS AN UNPUBLISHED

OPINION AND SHALL NOT

BE CITED AS AUTHORITY

Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, State of Idaho, 

Kootenai County. Hon. John T. Mitchell, District Judge. 

Order revoking probation and executing previously suspended sentence, 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 

Clifford Daniel Singer was found guilty of burglary. I.C. § 18-1401. The district court 

sentenced Singer to a unified term of three years, with a minimum period of confinement of one 

and one-half years, but suspended the sentence and placed Singer on probation. Subsequently, 

Singer admitted to violating the terms of the probation, and the district court consequently 

revoked probation and ordered execution of the original sentence. Singer appeals, contending 

that the district court abused its discretion in revoking probation.

It is within the trial court’s discretion to revoke probation if any of the terms and 

conditions of the probation have been violated. I.C. §§ 19-2603, 20-222; State v. Beckett, 122 
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Idaho 324, 325, 834 P.2d 326, 327 (Ct. App. 1992); State v. Adams, 115 Idaho 1053, 1054, 772 

P.2d 260, 261 (Ct. App. 1989); State v. Hass, 114 Idaho 554, 558, 758 P.2d 713, 717 (Ct. App. 

1988). In determining whether to revoke probation a court must examine whether the probation 

is achieving the goal of rehabilitation and consistent with the protection of society. State v. 

Upton, 127 Idaho 274, 275, 899 P.2d 984, 985 (Ct. App. 1995); Beckett, 122 Idaho at 325, 834 

P.2d at 327; Hass, 114 Idaho at 558, 758 P.2d at 717. The court may, after a probation violation 

has been established, order that the suspended sentence be executed or, in the alternative, the 

court is authorized under Idaho Criminal Rule 35 to reduce the sentence. Beckett, 122 Idaho at 

325, 834 P.2d at 327; State v. Marks, 116 Idaho 976, 977, 783 P.2d 315, 316 (Ct. App. 1989). 

The court may also order a period of retained jurisdiction. State v. Urrabazo, 150 Idaho 158, 

162, 244 P.3d 1244, 1248 (2010). A decision to revoke probation will be disturbed on appeal 

only upon a showing that the trial court abused its discretion. Beckett, 122 Idaho at 325, 834 

P.2d at 327. In reviewing the propriety of a probation revocation, the focus of the inquiry is the 

conduct underlying the trial court’s decision to revoke probation. State v. Morgan, 153 Idaho 

618, 621, 288 P.3d 835, 838 (Ct. App. 2012). Thus, this Court will consider the elements of the 

record before the trial court relevant to the revocation of probation issues which are properly 

made part of the record on appeal. Id.

Applying the foregoing standards, and having reviewed the record in this case, we cannot 

say that the district court abused its discretion in revoking probation or in ordering execution of 

Singer’s sentence. Therefore, the order revoking probation and directing execution of Singer’s 

previously suspended sentence is affirmed.