Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2013-10-17 18:23:31.220449+00
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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF IDAHO

                                   Docket Nos. 40804/40805

STATE OF IDAHO,                                 )     2013 Unpublished Opinion No. 713
                                                )
       Plaintiff-Respondent,                    )     Filed: October 17, 2013
                                                )
v.                                              )     Stephen W. Kenyon, Clerk
                                                )
CHRISTY ANN CRANDALL,                           )     THIS IS AN UNPUBLISHED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. Deborah A. Bail, District Judge.

       Order revoking probation and reinstating previously suspended unified ten-year
       sentence with two-year determinate term for grand theft, affirmed. Judgment of
       conviction and concurrent unified sentence of ten years with two years
       determinate for forgery, affirmed.

       Sara B. Thomas, State Appellate Public Defender; Ben P. 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; LANSING, Judge;
                                 and MELANSON, Judge

PER CURIAM
       In Docket No. 40805, Christy Ann Crandall was convicted of grand theft, Idaho
Code §§ 18-2403(1), 18-2407(1)(b). The district court imposed a unified ten-year sentence with
a two-year determinate term and retained jurisdiction.      At the conclusion of the retained
jurisdiction period, the court suspended the sentence and placed Crandall on supervised
probation for ten years. Subsequently, in Docket No. 40804, Crandall was convicted of forgery,
I.C. § 18-3601, in violation of her probation in Docket No. 40805. The district court revoked
probation in Docket No. 40805 and ordered execution of the underlying sentence. The district

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court imposed a unified ten-year sentence with a two-year determinate term for forgery, to run
concurrently with the grand theft sentence. Crandall filed Idaho Criminal Rule 35 motions for
reduction of her sentences in both cases, which were denied. On appeal, Crandall does not
challenge the district court’s decision to revoke probation or the denial of her Rule 35 motions,
but argues only that the district court abused its discretion in failing to sua sponte reduce her
sentence in the grand theft case, and that her sentence in the forgery case is excessive.
       Sentencing is a matter for the trial court’s discretion. Both our standard of review and the
factors to be considered in evaluating the reasonableness of the sentence are well established and
need not be repeated here. See State v. Hernandez, 121 Idaho 114, 117-18, 822 P.2d 1011, 1014-
15 (Ct. App. 1991); State v. Lopez, 106 Idaho 447, 449-51, 680 P.2d 869, 871-73 (Ct. App.
1984); State v. Toohill, 103 Idaho 565, 568, 650 P.2d 707, 710 (Ct. App. 1982). When reviewing
the length of a sentence, we consider the defendant’s entire sentence. State v. Oliver, 144 Idaho
722, 726, 170 P.3d 387, 391 (2007).
       When we review a sentence that is ordered into execution following a period of
probation, we will examine the entire record encompassing events before and after the original
judgment. State v. Hanington, 148 Idaho 26, 29, 218 P.3d 5, 8 (Ct. App. 2009). We base our
review upon the facts existing when the sentence was imposed as well as events occurring
between the original sentencing and the revocation of the probation. Id. Thus, this Court will
consider the elements of the record before the trial court that are properly made part of the record
on appeal and are relevant to the defendant’s contention that the trial court should have reduced
the sentence sua sponte upon revocation of probation. State v. Morgan, 153 Idaho 618, 621, 288
P.3d 835, 838 (Ct. App. 2012).
       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 Crandall’s original sentence without modification. Therefore, the order revoking
probation in Docket No. 40805 and directing execution of Crandall’s previously suspended
sentence, and the judgment of conviction and sentence in Docket No. 40804 are affirmed.

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