Idaho v. Pratt
Annotate this CaseDefendant Brian Pratt was charged with two counts of delivery of a controlled substance and one count of trafficking in methamphetamine, all of which were felonies. He absconded after the first day of trial and was found guilty of all three counts in absentia. He was arrested about three months later. For each of the charges of delivery of a controlled substance (counts one and three), the district court sentenced him to the custody of the Idaho Board of Correction for five years, with two years fixed and the remaining three years indeterminate, and the court ordered that those sentences run concurrently. For the trafficking charge (count two), the court sentenced him to the custody of the board of correction for a period of twenty years, with the first ten years fixed and the remaining ten years indeterminate. The court ordered that this sentence be served consecutively to the sentences for counts one and three. Defendant appealed, challenging only the district court’s denial of his motion for a mistrial based upon a comment made by a prospective juror during voir dire. Finding that defendant passed the jury for cause at the end of the voir dire examination, he waived any objection to the jury panel. Therefore, the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court.
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