Court Opinion

ID: 9787404
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 00:15:53.886407+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:36:55.610399
License: Public Domain

Chief Judge SCHWARTZMAN,
specially concurring.
I concur in the opinion of this Court. I have previously commented upon the seeming inequity and incongruity of NOT granting any credit for jail time served as a “condition of probation” toward the ultimate term of imprisonment, and will not repeat myself. See State v. Jakoski, 132 Idaho 67, 69, 966 P.2d 663, 665 (Ct.App.1998); State v. Lively, 131 Idaho 279, 281, 954 P.2d 1075, 1077 (Ct.App.1998). I would only note that as an exercise of leniency (discretion), a district court would not be precluded from extending some de facto credit in the form of an I.C.R. 35 reduction of the previously imposed fixed term of imprisonment upon revocation of probation and execution of the original sentence.
Secondly, I would suggest that defense counsel routinely, as a matter of policy and courtesy, forward a copy of any appellate decision to his/her client. That way, the client would at least have the opportunity to file a pro se petition for review without running afoul of the twenty-one-day deadline contained in I.A.R. 118, giving the Idaho Supreme Court the discretionary authority to review our final decision.