[¶1] Aрpellant, Donald Crouse, challenges an order of the district court revoking his probation and reinstating the original prison sentence. He claims the State failed to prove that the alleged violation was willful. He further claims that the district court, in reaching its decision, improperly relied upon allegations of other probation violations that were not charged or proven. We affirm.
ISSUES
[¶2] Appellant presents two issues, which we reword for clarification:
1. Did the district court abuse its discretion in revoking Appellant’s probation and reinstating the original prison sentence?
2. Did the district court err by relying on improper information to reach its deci- - sion?
FACTS
[¶8] Pursuant to a plea agreement, Appellant entered a no contest plea to one count of kidnapping.
[¶4] As detailed below, on more than one occasion, Appellant’s prоbation officer discussed with Appellant the probation condition of completing a psychiatric evaluation. Appellant made an appointment at a mental health clinic, and went to the clinic on the scheduled' date. However, he left the clinic without completing the evaluation or making another appointment. On July 1, 2016, the State filed a petition to revoke his probation, asserting that Appellant had violated a probation condition by failing to obtain the required psychiatric evaluation. At the initial hearing on the revocation petition, Appellant was advised of his rights, and informed of the allegations contained in the petition. Appellant denied the allegations. The district court then addressed the issue of bond.
[¶5] The prosecutor reсommended a relatively high bond. In making that recommendation, the prosecutor noted that Appellant lived “three doors” away from the victim’s home and, on the day before being arrested for the alleged probation violation, had been observed “on the [victim’s] property, looking into a trailer that was attached to a truck, looking around the truck, and standing and looking at the [victim’s] home.” The prosecutor specified that the State was not alleging those actions were a probation violation, because . Appellant had not actually contacted the victim or his family. However, based on Appellant’s alleged failure to obtain a psychiatric evaluation as ordered, and on his “proximity to the victim,” the State recommended a $60,000 bond. Defense counsel urged the court to release Appellant on his own recognizance. He acknowledged that Appellant was “not terribly diligent” about completing his psychiatric evaluation, but claimed that there was no “knowing, intentional violation of probation.” The district court considered the arguments, and emphasized the importance of Appellant obtaining a psychiatriс evaluation. It ruled that, “for the safety [of] the community as well as [Appellant’s] safety,” bond would be set at $60,000.
[¶6] The revocation hearing was held on September 19, 2016. During the hearing, Appellant’s probation officer testified that he met with Appellant on May 19, 2016, shortly after his senténcing. The officer recalled discussing the conditions of Appellant’s probation and, specifically, the condition requiring Appellant to obtain a psychiatric evaluation. The officer testified that Appellant indicated he understood the condition. He met with Appellant again on May 31, 2016, and reminded him of the need to complete a psychiatric evaluation. The officer specified that Appellant needed to set up an appointment, and call the officer the following day to confirm that he had done so. Appellant did not make that call. However, when the probation officer met with Appellant on June 24, 2016, Appellant informed the officer that he had made a June 27, 2016, appointment for a psychiatric evaluation at High Country Behavioral Health. The probation officer testified that he later learned Appellant went to the clinic on the schedulеd day, but left without completing the evaluation. Appellant told the officer that he “just kind of started zoning out when he was in the meeting and then eventually he just got up and left.” He testified that, to his knowledge, Appellant had not obtained the required psychiatric evaluation.
[¶7] A clinical therapist at High Country Behavioral Health also testified. She stated that Appellant reported to the clinic on the scheduled day. He was given an intake packet, consisting of approximately forty pages. A short time later, she noticed that Appellant “had the paperwork spread out across, probably, four or five chairs, [and] had two or three toothbrushes out on the chairs also.” When she invited Appellant into her office, he gathered the paperwork and put the toothbrushеs into his pocket. In her office, she asked why he was there. He replied, “It’s somebody’s sick idea of a joke.” When she asked him a question about the paperwork, he “put his head to one side, closed his eyes, kind of periodically closed and opened them.”
[¶8] The district court found that the State had proven by a preponderance of the evidence that Appellant had violated a condition of his probation by failing to obtain a psychiatric evаluation. The district court then proceeded to consider an appropriate sanction for the violation. The prosecutor urged the district court to revoke Appellant’s probation and reinstate the sentence of three to six years imprisonment. Defense counsel contended that Appellant was now prepared to complete his psychiatric evaluation, and intended to do so. On that basis, he requested that the district court place Appellant oh probation once again. The district court decided to revoke Appellant’s probation and to reimpose the original prison sentence. Appellant challenges that decision in this appeal.
STANDARD OF REVIEW
[¶9] “A district court’s decision to revoke probation and impose a sentence is discretionary, and we will not interfere with the ruling unless the record shows a clear abuse of discretion.” Miller v. State,
Because the trial court heard and weighed the evidence, assessed witness credibility, and made the necessary inferences and deductions from the evidence, the trial court’s factual findings are not disturbed on appeal unless they are clearly erroneous, and the evidence is viewed in the light most favorable to the trial court’s' determination.
Miller, ¶ 11,
DISCUSSION
[¶10] A helpful first step in evaluating Appellant’s first issue is to review some aspects of the probation revocation process. Probation revocation, is governed by W.R.Cr.P. 39. The process involves two. steps. In the first part, the adjudicatory phase, the question is' whether the probationer violated a condition ' of his probation. Mapp,
[¶11] Appellant’s arguments in this appeal are sometimes confusing because they fail to recognize the distinction between the two phases of the probation revocation process. However, it is undisputed that Appellant did not complete his psychiatric evaluation. This suрports the district court’s ruling in the adjudicatory phase that Appellant had violated a condition of his probation.
[¶12] Relying on Forbes v. State,
[¶13] As we have recognized, “it is possible that a defendant’s mental illness could render his violation of the terras of his probation not willful.” Sharp v. State,
[¶14] We also conclude that the State’s evidence was sufficient to establish that the violation was willful. We view this evidence in the. light most favorable to the trial court’s determination. Miller, ¶ 11,
[¶15] During the revocation hearing, defense counsel suggested that Appellant “may need more assistance” in obtaining the required psychiatric evaluation. He did not claim that Appellants mental illness- rendered him incapable of complying with the probation-condition. The evidence was sufficient to support a determination -that the probation violation was willful.
[¶16] In his second issue, Appellant contends that it was improper for the district court to consider information indicating that he had been seen on the property of the victim’s family. This assertion was made by the prosecutor, and Appellant objects that it was both hearsay and unsupported by evidence. When the information is placed in context, however, the district corah did not err by considering it.
[¶17] The information was first brought to the district court’s attention at the initial hearing, when the district court was deciding whether to release Appellant on his own recognizance or set a bond. The prosecutor indicated that Appellant had been seen on the property of the victim’s family:
I would bring to the Court’s attention, and it has been produced already to [the defense counsel], that on July 6, 2016, that [Appellant] was, in fact, observed on the[ir] property, looking into a trailer that was attached to -a truck, looking around the track, and standing and looking at the [victim’s] home after he had approached the home from his residеnce. This is not an issue that’s raised as a probation revocation [issue] because while there is a condition of no contact with [the victim and his family], the — it is our assertion that he didn’t actually knock on the door and communicate with them. But the Court certainly can 'understand why that would make the [victim’s family] uncomfortablethat that had occurred less than a month after his release from incarceration.
The State explicitly indicated that it was not alleging a violation of the no-eontact condition of Appellant’s probation. Instead,,.the prosecutor .offered the information because she believed it had a bearing on the district' court’s decision on setting bond for Appellant’s release from jail pending the revocation hearing. Appellant has provided us with no authority suggesting it is improper for a district court to consider the State’s concerns about the safety of the victim and his family when deciding whether to set bond for a defendant,
[¶18] The prosecutor’s second mention of this concern occurred during the dispositional phase of the revocation hearing, at a point after the district court had already found that Appellant had violatеd a condition of his probation, and was deciding " what consequences to impose because of that violation. The prosecutor stated:
[Appellant] was observed looking, into the[ir] camper and truck on their property and loitering around the surrounding area of the property; not, per se, violating the [no-]contact provisions of his probation but, nonetheless, making thе parents of these small children very concerned for the safety-of those children.
Appellant contends that this information was inadmissible hearsay. However; rules of evidence do not apply during the dispositional phase. W.R.Cr.P. 39(a)(5)(B); Mapp,
[¶19] Appellant also asserts the district court erred in considering, during the revocation hearing, whether Appellant was taking his medication. This stems from the district court’s comment, during the dispositional phase, that
[Appellant], your case is a difficult case for many reasons; but the one that is probably the largest reason is that I recollect and I refreshed my recollection when I read [the pre-sentence investigation report], earlier today, that my commеnt about the safety of the community, which is one of the things I need to take into consideration for sentencing, was that I could be reasonably comfortable with the safety of the community, as well as your safety, if you were taking your medications and if you would have had an updated evaluation and everything was properly in place with that. The Court clearly has found that you’ve been at risk because of the failure to get that done. I haven’t had any testimony on whether or not you’ve taken your medication. That’s not at issue here. But the Court particularly finds that one of the reasons that I granted you probation was the very strict and the very absolute requirement that you get an evaluation, you follow through with it, and you do it. You’ve not done that. ... And the only place that the Court can be certain that you’ll do that, [Appellant], is actually if you’re in someone’s custody and they’re monitoring [you].
Appellant contends -it was never alleged that he violated a probation condition by failing to take his medications, that there was no evidence presented that would allow the district court to determine whether he was taking his medications, and,- accordingly, - that the district court “erred in relying on this unverified assumption.”
, [¶20] Appellant’s argument ignores what the district court actually said and did. The district court acknowledged that it had heard no evidence about whether he was taking his medication. It acknowledged that taking his medication was not at issue; It did not find that Appellant had violated his probation conditions by failing to take his medication. It found only that Appellant, violated a probаtion condition by failing to obtain a psychiatric evaluation. The . district court did not rely on an unverified assumption, it merely ob-sérved thát one way' to ensure Appellant would complete a' psychiatric evaluation and continue taking his medication was to incarcerate him. We have previously said that, in the dispositional phase, a court “must deliberate
[¶21] Affirmed.
Notes
. The affidavit in support of the Information filed against Appellant asserted that five-year-old J.S. and his younger brother were riding their bicycles in their neighborhood, and rode past Appellant’s home. Appellant came out of his house, picked J.S. up, and carried him into the house. The younger brother went home and told his father what had happened. The father went to Appellant’s house, found the door open, went inside and removed his son. When police asked J.S. if Appellant had hurt him or touched him, J.S. said that Appellant had grabbed him by the arm at one point.