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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF IDAHO

Docket Nos. 45129/45242

STATE OF IDAHO,

Plaintiff-Respondent,

v.

CHRISTOPHER JAMES HARVEY,

Defendant-Appellant.

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2018 Unpublished Opinion No. 338

Filed: January 26, 2018

Karel A. Lehrman, 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THIS IS AN UNPUBLISHED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. Appeal from the District Court of 

the Third Judicial District, State of Idaho, Canyon County. Hon. Bradly S. Ford, 

District Judge. 

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

period of confinement of four years, for aggravated battery (Canyon County 

case), affirmed; judgment of conviction and concurrent unified sentence of 

fourteen years with four years determinate for grand theft and a concurrent sixmonth jail term for misdemeanor domestic battery (Ada County case), affirmed.

Eric D. Fredericksen, State Appellate Public Defender; Jenny C. Swinford, 

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 GRATTON, Chief Judge; HUSKEY, Judge;

and LORELLO, Judge

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PER CURIAM 

This consolidated appeal involves two cases arising from the same course of conduct in 

two separate counties. Pursuant to a plea agreement, Christopher James Harvey pled guilty to 

aggravated battery (Canyon County case), Idaho Code §§ 18-903(a), 18-907(a); Harvey also pled 

guilty to grand theft, I.C. §§ 18-2407(1), 18-2407(1)(b), and 18-2409, and misdemeanor 

domestic battery, I.C. §§ 18-903(11), 18-918(3)(b) (Ada County case). In the Canyon County 
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case, the district court imposed a unified sentence of fifteen years with four years determinate for 

aggravated battery. In the Ada County case, the district court imposed a concurrent unified 

sentence of fourteen years with four years determinate for grand theft and a concurrent six-month 

jail term for misdemeanor domestic battery. Harvey appeals, asserting that the district courts 

abused their discretion by imposing excessive sentences in each case.

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 these cases, we cannot say that the district courts abused their discretion.

Therefore, Harvey’s judgments of conviction and sentences in Canyon County and Ada 

County are affirmed.