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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF IDAHO

Docket No. 40227

STATE OF IDAHO,

Plaintiff-Respondent,

v.

TRUMAN E. UHLRY,

Defendant-Appellant.

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2013 Unpublished Opinion No. 413

Filed: March 26, 2013

Stephen W. Kenyon, Clerk

THIS IS AN UNPUBLISHED 

OPINION AND SHALL NOT 

BE CITED AS AUTHORITY

Appeal from the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District, State of Idaho, Twin 

Falls County. Hon. G. Richard Bevan, District Judge. 

Order denying motion to reconsider fines, fees, and costs, affirmed.

Sara B. Thomas, State Appellate Public Defender; Sally J. Cooley, 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 LANSING, Judge; GRATTON, Judge;

and MELANSON, Judge

PER CURIAM

Truman E. Uhlry pled guilty to driving under the influence. Idaho Code §§ 18-8004; 18-

8005(7). On July 1, 2008, the district court sentenced Uhlry to a unified term of ten years, with a 

minimum period of confinement of five years. On July 15, 2008, Uhlry filed an Idaho Criminal 

Rule 35 motion requesting the district court to reduce his fine or, alternatively, reduce the 

determinate portion of his sentence. The district court granted the motion and reduced Uhlry’s 

fine. On June 21, 2012, Uhlry filed a motion to reconsider fines, fees, and costs. The district 

court denied the motion, stating that it no longer had jurisdiction to rule on the motion and 

believed Uhlry’s motion was “an impermissible subsequent I.C.R. 35 motion.” Uhlry filed a 

timely notice of appeal as well as a motion to reconsider the denial of his motion to reconsider,
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which the district court denied. Uhlry appeals contending that the district court abused its 

discretion in denying his motion.

The State argues that Uhlry’s claim fails because the district court was without 

jurisdiction, nearly four years after judgment, to consider Uhlry’s untimely and successive 

Rule 35 motion for sentence reduction. Uhlry, “mindful of the fact, at the time he filed his 

motion to reconsider fines, fees, and costs, the district court had lost jurisdiction to modify his 

sentence,” nonetheless asserts that the district court abused its discretion.

Idaho Criminal Rule 35 vests the district court with jurisdiction to consider and act upon 

a motion to reduce a sentence that is “filed within 120 days of the entry of the judgment 

imposing sentence or order releasing retained jurisdiction.” I.C.R. 35. The 120-day filing limit 

is a jurisdictional restraint on the power of the court which deprives the court of the authority to 

entertain an untimely motion. State v. Fox, 122 Idaho 550, 552, 835 P.2d 1361, 1363 (Ct. App. 

1992); State v. Hocker, 119 Idaho 105, 106, 803 P.2d 1011, 1012 (Ct. App. 1991); State v. 

Parrish, 110 Idaho 599, 600, 716 P.2d 1371, 1372 (Ct. App. 1986). Rule 35 also provides that 

“no defendant may file more than one motion seeking a reduction of sentence under this Rule.” 

I.C.R. 35. In State v. Bottens, 137 Idaho 730, 52 P.3d 875 (Ct. App. 2002), this Court held that 

“a motion to reconsider the denial of a Rule 35 motion is an improper successive motion and is 

prohibited by Rule 35. We hold that the prohibition of successive motions under Rule 35 is a 

jurisdictional limit.”

Therefore, the district court’s order denying Uhlry’s motion to reconsider fines, fees, and 

costs is affirmed.