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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF IDAHO

                                       Docket No. 37238

STATE OF IDAHO,                                  )     2010 Unpublished Opinion No. 703
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       Plaintiff-Respondent,                     )     Filed: November 10, 2010
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v.                                               )     Stephen W. Kenyon, Clerk
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JOSE LUIS ZEPEDA, JR.,                           )     THIS IS AN UNPUBLISHED
                                                 )     OPINION AND SHALL NOT
       Defendant-Appellant.                      )     BE CITED AS AUTHORITY
                                                 )

       Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, State of Idaho, Ada
       County. Hon. Darla S. Williamson, District Judge.

       Appeal from order revoking probation and reinstating previously suspended
       unified three-year sentence for issuing an insufficient funds check, dismissed.

       Deborah Whipple of Nevin, Benjamin, McKay & Bartlett, LLP, Boise, for
       appellant.

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

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

PER CURIAM
       Jose Luis Zepeda, Jr. pled guilty to issuing an insufficient funds check. I.C. § 18-
3106(b). The district court imposed a unified three-year term, suspended the sentence and placed
Zepeda on probation. Subsequently, Zepeda admitted to violating the terms of his probation, and
the district court revoked probation, retained jurisdiction, and ultimately placed Zepeda back on
probation. Four days later, Zepeda was arrested for another crime, and a report of probation
violation was filed. Zepeda admitted that he violated the terms of his probation, and the district
court revoked probation and ordered execution of the original sentence on October 22, 2009.
Zepeda timely filed an Idaho Criminal Rule 35 motion for reduction of his sentence, which the

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district court denied. On December 23, 2009, Zepeda filed a notice of appeal only from the
district court’s order denying his Rule 35 motion.
       Zepeda nevertheless argues that the district court abused its discretion when it revoked
his probation and ordered execution of the underlying sentence. We are unable to address the
merits of this claim of error, however, because the appeal is not timely from the order revoking
probation. Zepeda’s notice of appeal was filed more than forty-two days after the revocation
order and therefore did not comply with the time limits of Idaho Appellate Rule 14(a). As we
explained in State v. Yeaton, 121 Idaho 1018, 1019, 829 P.2d 1367, 1368 (Ct. App. 1992), his
timely filing of a Rule 35 motion for reduction of the sentence did not extend the period for
appeal from the revocation order:
               Idaho Appellate Rule 14 provides that the time for appeal from a “criminal
       judgment, order or sentence” can be extended by the filing of a motion within
       fourteen days of the judgment. However, there is no similar provision, permitting
       an extension of the time to appeal, applicable with respect to appellate review of a
       post-judgment order revoking probation once the fourteen days following the
       judgment has expired. Any order thereafter entered, including the revocation of
       probation, is simply an “order made after judgment” which is appealable under
       I.A.R. 11(c)(9), but the appeal must be filed within forty-two days of that order.
       Since Yeaton, the Idaho Supreme Court has also held that an order revoking probation is
not a judgment and, as such, the filing of a Rule 35 motion within fourteen days of such order
does not terminate the running of the time for appeal from that order. See State v. Thomas, 146
Idaho 592, 594, 199 P.3d 769, 771 (2008).
       The failure to file a notice of appeal within the time limits prescribed by Rule 14 deprives
the appellate courts of jurisdiction over the appeal. I.A.R. 21; State v. Fuller, 104 Idaho 891, 665
P.2d 190 (Ct. App. 1983).     Zepeda has presented no issue or argument regarding his Rule 35
motion in this appeal.     Accordingly, Zepeda’s appeal challenging the order revoking his
probation must be dismissed for lack of appellate court jurisdiction.

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