Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2018-08-21 18:06:27.154215+00
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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF IDAHO

                                   Docket Nos. 45535/45536

STATE OF IDAHO,                                 )
                                                )   Filed: August 21, 2018
       Plaintiff-Respondent,                    )
                                                )   Karel A. Lehrman, Clerk
v.                                              )
                                                )   THIS IS AN UNPUBLISHED
MATTHEW WISE,                                   )   OPINION AND SHALL NOT
                                                )   BE CITED AS AUTHORITY
       Defendant-Appellant.                     )
                                                )

       Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, State of Idaho,
       Shoshone County. Hon. Scott L. Wayman, District Judge.

       Order revoking probation and requiring execution of a unified sentence of four
       years with one and one-half years determinate for aggravated assault; concurrent
       unified sentence of five years with two years determinate for possession of a
       controlled substance, affirmed.

       Eric D. Fredericksen, State Appellate Public Defender; Kimberly A. Coster,
       Deputy Appellate Public Defender, Boise, for appellant.

       Hon. Lawrence G. Wasden, Attorney General; Lori A. Fleming, Deputy Attorney
       General, Boise, for respondent.
                 ________________________________________________

                     Before GRATTON, Chief Judge; HUSKEY, Judge;
                                 and LORELLO, Judge
                  ________________________________________________

PER CURIAM
       In Docket No. 45535, Matthew Wise pled guilty to aggravated assault. I.C. § 18-905.
The district court sentenced Wise to a unified term of four years with one and one-half years
determinate, suspended the sentence, and placed Wise on supervised probation for two years.
Several months later, in Docket No. 45536, Wise pled guilty to possession of a controlled
substance, I.C. § 37-2732(c)(1). In a joint disposition and sentencing hearing for both cases, the
district court revoked Wise’s probation and executed the underlying sentence in Docket
No. 45535; imposed a concurrent unified sentence of five years with two years determinate, for

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possession of methamphetamine in Docket No. 45536; and retained jurisdiction in both cases.
Following the period of retained jurisdiction, the district court suspended Wise’s sentences and
placed him on supervised probation for two years.
       Subsequently, Wise admitted to violating several terms of the probation and the district
court continued Wise on supervised probation. Thereafter, Wise admitted to again violating the
terms of his probation and the district court consequently revoked probation and ordered
execution of the original sentences in both cases. Wise appeals, contending that the district court
abused its discretion by revoking probation in both cases.
       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 I.C.R. 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.
       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 Wise’s sentences without modification. Therefore, the order revoking probation
and directing execution of Wise’s previously suspended sentences is affirmed.

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