Court Opinion

ID: 9626689
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 08:21:38.21674+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:06:32.429231
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SWANSTROM, Judge,
specially concurring.
I concur in Part I, but concur in the result only, in Part II. There are circumstances under I.C. § 19-2601 where a court may revoke probation and still retain jurisdiction over the defendant, so that the court could during the period of retained jurisdiction properly “reconsider” its order revoking jurisdiction. There may be other circumstances where the court could revoke probation under I.C. § 20-222 and impose a sentence which would then give the defendant an opportunity to file a I.C.R. 35 motion for reduction of sentence, often called a “motion to reconsider.” However, neither of these possibilities allowed Yeaton to file a motion for reconsideration of the judge’s decision here to revoke probation. The court did not retain jurisdiction over Yeaton when it revoked probation, so the court could not “reconsider” its order under I.C. § 19-2601. Neither did the court “impose” a sentence when it revoked probation; it merely ordered the previously imposed sentence into execution. So I.C.R. 35 offered Yeaton no avenue to ask the court “to reconsider” the sentence.
I believe that Yeaton’s options were used up by the time the court revoked his probation. As the opinion by Chief Judge Walters notes, Yeaton’s time for appeal from the sentence had run. Yeaton could have filed a Rule 35 motion for reconsideration of his sentence “upon revocation of probation,” but he missed that opportunity by several days. Accordingly, his only remedy was to appeal from the order revoking probation, within forty-two days, but he failed to meet that deadline also. After the order was entered, Yeaton had no right to move for reconsideration and the court had no jurisdiction to grant such a motion.
For the foregoing reasons, I disagree with the statement that it was a “matter of the [district] court’s sound discretion” whether to reconsider revocation of Yea-ton’s probation. The district court did not have the discretion to grant the motion because it had lost jurisdiction over Yeaton. However, because the court denied the motion, I concur in the result.
SILAK, J., concurs.