Jeffrey Fleshman appeals from the order denying his motion to withdraw his probation violation admissions. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.
In 2002, Fleshman was charged with, and pled guilty to, felony driving under the influence. The district court imposed a unified sentence of five years, with a minimum period of confinement of four years. The district court suspended the execution of sentence, and Fleshman was placed on probation.
In 2004, Fleshman violated the terms of his probation. The district court revoked probation and retained jurisdiction. Later, the district court again suspended Flesh-man’s sentence and placed him back on probation. However, two months after being returned to probation, Fleshman committed six new probation violations. Pursuant to an agreement with the state, Fleshman admitted to all probation violations in exchange for the state not pursuing any criminal charges arising from those violations.
Consequently, on December 2, 2004, the district court revoked Fleshman’s probation and ordered into execution the original sentence. During the revocation proceedings, the district court incorrectly stated that the original sentence was a unified term of five years, with a minimum period of confinement of one year. The sentence referenced in the district court’s written probation violation order was similarly erroneous.
On December 13, 2004, Fleshman filed an I.C.R. 35 motion for reduction of sentence. The district court denied Fleshman’s Rule 35 motion. At the same time, the district court entered an I.C.R. 36 order to correct its previous clerical mistake and established that the original sentence had always been a unified sentence of five years, with a minimum period of confinement of four years. Fleshman appealed the denial of his Rule 35 motion. This Court reviewed Fleshman’s original sentence and, finding no abuse of discretion, affirmed the order denying his Rule 35 motion in an unpublished opinion.
State v. Fleshman,
Docket No. 31426,
On March 7, 2006, some fifteen months after the revocation of probation and execution of sentence, Fleshman filed a motion to withdraw his probation violation admissions on the grounds that he made such admissions based upon the mistaken belief that his sentence had a minimum period of confinement of one year, not four years. In his motion to withdraw, Fleshman analogized his motion to a motion to withdraw a guilty plea. The district court denied Fleshman’s motion. Fleshman appeals.
In his motion to withdraw the admission of his probation violations, Fleshman attempted
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to analogize his motion to a motion seeking a withdrawal of a guilty plea. Similarly, on appeal, the state argues that the district court lacked jurisdiction to hear Fleshman’s motion because a trial court’s jurisdiction to consider a withdrawal of guilty plea, and therefore potentially set aside a judgment of conviction, expires once the judgment becomes final.
See State v. Jakoski,
A court’s acts of amending or setting aside of a judgment of conviction, and the law by which that can be accomplished, are fundamentally different from a trial court’s decisions regarding a defendant’s probation. Probation is granted and revoked at the discretion of the trial court, after a judgment of conviction has been issued, and is related to the issue of sentencing, not judgment.
See
I.C. § 19-2601(2); 19-2603, 20-222;
State v. Beckett,
In the event that the trial court grants probation, it retains jurisdiction to revoke or modify the terms of probation. I.C. §§ 20-221; 20-222;
State v. Williams,
In the instant case, the district court revoked Fleshman’s probation and executed his original sentence in 2004. The district court did not retain jurisdiction at that time. More than fifteen months later, Fleshman filed a motion seeking to withdraw his admission to the probation violations, which in essence sought to reverse the district court’s order revoking his probation and executing sentence. However, when the district court revoked Fleshman’s probation and executed his sentence, jurisdiction was transferred to the Board of Correction. At that point, the district court no longer had jurisdiction to consider Fleshman’s motion to withdraw his admissions to the probation violations. Moreover, because Fleshman’s motion did not seek to withdraw his original guilty plea in the underlying judgment of conviction, I.C.R. 33(c) is inapplicable.
In short, Fleshman attempted to withdraw his admissions to the probation violations, and reverse the consequent revocation of his probation, long after the district court transferred jurisdiction to the Board of Correction. Accordingly, because the district court did not have jurisdiction to grant Fleshman’s motion, we affirm the district court’s order *775 denying Fleshman’s motion to withdraw admissions of probation violations.
