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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF IDAHO

Docket No. 44193

STATE OF IDAHO,

Plaintiff-Respondent,

v.

LANCE JOHNSON,

Defendant-Appellant.

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2016 Unpublished Opinion No. 821

Filed: December 20, 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THIS IS AN UNPUBLISHED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. Lansing L. Haynes, District Judge. 

Order revoking probation and executing previously suspended sentence, affirmed. 

Eric D. Fredericksen, State Appellate Public Defender; Ben P. McGreevy, 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 GRATTON, Judge

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PER CURIAM 

Lance Johnson pled guilty to money laundering. I.C. § 18-8201. In exchange for his 

guilty plea, additional charges were dismissed. The district court sentenced Johnson to a unified 

term of ten years, with a minimum period of confinement of five years; suspended the sentence;

and placed Johnson on probation. Subsequently, Johnson admitted to violating the terms of the 

probation, and the district court consequently revoked probation. However, upon revocation of 

probation, the district court reduced Johnson’s sentence to a unified term of ten years, with a 

minimum period of confinement of three years. Johnson appeals, contending that the district 
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court abused its discretion in revoking probation, not following the parties’ disposition 

recommendation, and that the sentence is excessive.

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 

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. I.C. § 19-2601. 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.

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

and the factors to be considered in evaluating the reasonableness of a 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). 

When we review a sentence that is ordered into execution following a period of 

probation, we will examine the entire record encompassing events before and after the original 

judgment. State v. Hanington, 148 Idaho 26, 29, 218 P.3d 5, 8 (Ct. App. 2009). We base our 
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review upon the facts existing when the sentence was imposed as well as events occurring 

between the original sentencing and the revocation of probation. Id. Thus, this Court will 

consider the elements of the record before the trial court that are properly made part of the record 

on appeal and are relevant to the defendant’s contention that the trial court should have reduced 

the sentence sua sponte upon revocation of probation. Morgan, 153 Idaho at 621, 288 P.3d at 

838. 

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

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

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

execution of Johnson’s modified sentence is affirmed.