Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2013-10-09 22:27:19.607805+00
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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF IDAHO

                                         Docket No. 40102

STATE OF IDAHO,                                    )     2013 Unpublished Opinion No. 693
                                                   )
       Plaintiff-Respondent,                       )     Filed: October 2, 2013
                                                   )
v.                                                 )     Stephen W. Kenyon, Clerk
                                                   )
LYNNSEY DAWN CUMMINGS,                             )     THIS IS AN UNPUBLISHED
                                                   )     OPINION AND SHALL NOT
       Defendant-Appellant.                        )     BE CITED AS AUTHORITY
                                                   )

       Appeal from the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District, State of Idaho, Twin
       Falls County. Hon. Randy J. Stoker, District Judge.

       Order relinquishing jurisdiction, affirmed.

       Sara B. Thomas, State Appellate Public Defender; Ben Patrick McGreevy,
       Deputy Appellate Public Defender, Boise, for appellant.

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

                     Before GUTIERREZ, Chief Judge; GRATTON, Judge;
                                 and MELANSON, Judge

PER CURIAM
       Lynnsey Dawn Cummings pled guilty to possession of a controlled substance with intent
to deliver (methamphetamine), Idaho Code § 37-2732(a)(1)(A). The district court sentenced
Cummings to a unified term of eight years, with three years determinate, and retained
jurisdiction. After Cummings completed a period of retained jurisdiction, upon recommendation
of program staff at the South Boise Women’s Correctional Center, the district court relinquished
jurisdiction and executed the underlying sentence. Cummings filed an Idaho Criminal Rule 35
motion for reduction of her sentence, which the district court denied. Cummings now appeals,
contending the district court abused its discretion by relinquishing jurisdiction.
       We note that the decision to place a defendant on probation or whether, instead, to
relinquish jurisdiction over the defendant is a matter within the sound discretion of the district

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court and will not be overturned on appeal absent an abuse of that discretion. State v. Hood, 102
Idaho 711, 712, 639 P.2d 9, 10 (1981); State v. Lee, 117 Idaho 203, 205-06, 786 P.2d 594,
596-97 (Ct. App. 1990). The record in this case shows that the district court properly considered
the information before it and determined that probation was not appropriate. Cummings has
failed to show that the district court abused its discretion, and we therefore affirm the order
relinquishing jurisdiction.

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