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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF IDAHO

                                       Docket No. 38418

STATE OF IDAHO,                                  )     2012 Unpublished Opinion No. 345
                                                 )
       Plaintiff-Respondent,                     )     Filed: February 1, 2012
                                                 )
v.                                               )     Stephen W. Kenyon, Clerk
                                                 )
GENARO HERNANDEZ AREVALO,                        )     THIS IS AN UNPUBLISHED
                                                 )     OPINION AND SHALL NOT
       Defendant-Appellant.                      )     BE CITED AS AUTHORITY
                                                 )

       Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, State of Idaho,
       Kootenai County. Hon. Benjamin R. Simpson, District Judge.

       Judgment of conviction and unified sentence of fifteen years, with a minimum
       period of confinement of three years, for lewd conduct with a child under
       sixteen, affirmed.

       Sara B. Thomas, State Appellate Public Defender; Sarah E. Tompkins, 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; GUTIERREZ, Judge;
                                  and MELANSON, Judge

PER CURIAM
       Genaro Hernandez Arevalo was found guilty of lewd conduct with a child under sixteen.
Idaho Code § 18-1508. The district court sentenced Arevalo to a unified term of fifteen years,
with a minimum period of confinement of three years. Thereafter, Arevalo filed an Idaho
Criminal Rule 35 motion for reduction of his sentence, which the district court denied. Arevalo
now appeals, contending his sentence is excessive.
       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,

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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.
       Therefore, Arevalo’s judgment of conviction and sentence are affirmed.

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