Opinion
Docket No. 42073 2014 Unpublished Opinion No. 868
12-16-2014
STATE OF IDAHO, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. RUBEN CARREON MENDOZA, Defendant-Appellant.
Sara B. Thomas, State Appellate Public Defender; Shawn F. Wilkerson, Deputy Appellate Public Defender, Boise, for appellant. Hon. Lawrence G. Wasden, Attorney General; Jessica M. Lorello, Deputy Attorney General, Boise, for respondent.
Stephen W. Kenyon, Clerk
THIS IS AN UNPUBLISHED OPINION AND SHALL NOT BE CITED AS AUTHORITY
Appeal from the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District, State of Idaho, Bonneville County. Hon. Dane H. Watkins, Jr., District Judge. Judgment of conviction and unified sentence of ten years, with a minimum period of confinement of one and one-half years, for domestic battery with traumatic injury, affirmed. Sara B. Thomas, State Appellate Public Defender; Shawn F. Wilkerson, Deputy Appellate Public Defender, Boise, for appellant. Hon. Lawrence G. Wasden, Attorney General; Jessica M. Lorello, Deputy Attorney General, Boise, for respondent. Before GUTIERREZ, Chief Judge; LANSING, Judge; and GRATTON, Judge PER CURIAM
Ruben Carreon Mendoza entered an Alford plea to domestic battery with traumatic injury. I.C. § 18-918(2). In exchange for his guilty plea, the state agreed not to pursue an allegation that Mendoza was a persistent violator. The district court sentenced Mendoza to a unified term of ten years, with a minimum period of confinement of one and one-half years. Mendoza filed an I.C.R 35 motion, which the district court denied. Mendoza appeals.
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). Applying these standards, and having reviewed the record in this case, we cannot say that the district court abused its discretion.
Therefore, Mendoza's judgment of conviction and sentence are affirmed.
See North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25 (1970).