Idaho Supreme Court - Criminal Decisions 2014
Date: December 18, 2014
Docket Number: 41632
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, Idaho State Police stopped defendant-respondent Derek Arrotta for a traffic violation. At the end of the stop, defendant was issued a citation for misdemeanor driving while under the influence of alcohol.…
Date: December 2, 2014
Docket Number: 40603
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Juan Luis Sanchez-Castro was indicted, tried, and convicted of one count of conspiracy to traffic in 400 grams or more of methamphetamine and one count of trafficking in 400 grams or more of methamphetamine.…
Date: December 2, 2014
Docket Number: 41169
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, a Post Falls police officer was searching for a gray truck with stolen Washington license plates. He located and began to follow the truck, and he confirmed that the license plate on it was stolen. The truck…
Date: October 30, 2014
Docket Number: 41477
Justia Opinion Summary: The Kootenai County Prosecutor filed a two-count information against Jesse Elias alleging that he committed forcible sexual penetration by use of a foreign object (to a minor child), and burglary. The matter proceeded to…
Date: October 29, 2014
Docket Number: 39838
Justia Opinion Summary: Jonathan Ellington was convicted of second-degree murder and two counts of aggravated battery. He moved for a new trial, arguing that he discovered new material evidence that could not have been produced at trial through…
Date: October 29, 2014
Docket Number: 41179
Justia Opinion Summary: The State appealed a district court's grant of Micah Wulff's motion to suppress evidence obtained in a warrantless blood draw. The draw took place after Wulff was in custody for driving under the influence. The district…
Date: October 29, 2014
Docket Number: 41645
Justia Opinion Summary: Gary Schall was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. He had two prior convictions for driving under the influence within the previous ten years, one of which stemmed from a 2004 arrest in Wyoming. As a…
Date: September 26, 2014
Docket Number: 40619
Justia Opinion Summary: What began as a disagreement between neighbors, ended with defendant-appellant Nathan Herren being charged with misdemeanor malicious injury to property - a charge to which he pled guilty. The magistrate court entered a…
Date: September 19, 2014
Docket Number: 40553
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Matthew Taylor was convicted for conspiracy to manufacture, deliver or possess with intent to deliver a controlled substance; conspiracy to deliver or possess with intent to deliver drug paraphernalia; and…
Date: September 15, 2014
Docket Number: 41394
Justia Opinion Summary: These are two cases out of Bannock County that were consolidated on appeal. In the first case, defendant was convicted of attempting to elude a peace officer, a felony, and of malicious injury to property and assault,…
Date: September 4, 2014
Docket Number: 40294
Justia Opinion Summary: A grand jury indicted Michael Koch on four counts of lewd conduct with a minor under sixteen with “C.C.” named as the complaining witness in all counts. Count I alleged the crime was committed “by manual to genital…
Date: August 22, 2014
Docket Number: 40554
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Charlynda Goggin was convicted for conspiracy to manufacture, deliver or possess with intent to deliver a controlled substance; conspiracy to deliver or possess with intent to deliver drug paraphernalia;…
Date: July 31, 2014
Docket Number: 41395
Justia Opinion Summary: A woman sleeping in the bedroom of her apartment in Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, awakened to see an unknown male standing over her with a knife in his hand. He was wearing a mask that covered his face and exposed his…
Date: June 24, 2014
Docket Number: 40507
Justia Opinion Summary: The State charged Kyle Richardson with three counts of delivery of a controlled substance. After a preliminary hearing in which a confidential informant testified for the State, the State filed a motion requesting that…
Date: June 19, 2014
Docket Number: 41275
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-appellant Joshua Jones appealed his conviction for grand theft by extortion. Defendant argued the district court erred when it denied his mid-trial request to question a juror after the juror informed the court…
Date: June 17, 2014
Docket Number: 41115
Justia Opinion Summary: Bob Boren appealed his conviction entered upon his conditional guilty plea to unlawful possession of a firearm. Boren claimed that the district court erred in denying his motion to dismiss the charge. Finding no…
Date: June 17, 2014
Docket Number: 41394-2013
Justia Opinion Summary: Two cases were consolidated on appeal. In the first case, Defendant was convicted of felony attempting to elude a peace officer, and misdemeanors malicious injury to property and assault. In the second case, Defendant…
Date: April 4, 2014
Docket Number: 38956
Justia Opinion Summary: The State charged defendant-appellant Russell Parker with one count of lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor under sixteen. Defendant went to trial and the jury found him guilty. On appeal to the Supreme Court,…
Date: March 28, 2014
Docket Number: 39710 / 39711
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-appellant Krystal Easley appealed the revocation of her probation and the Supreme Court's partial denial of her request to augment the record with various transcripts to be created at the public's expense. This…
Date: March 28, 2014
Docket Numbers: 39710, 39711
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-appellant Krystal Easley appealed the revocation of her probation, and the Supreme Court's partial denial of her request to augment the record with various transcripts (to be created at the public's expense).…
Date: March 28, 2014
Docket Number: 39877
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-respondent Carey Baker married Robyn Shea in 2005; divorced in 2009. Shortly thereafter, Shea sought and obtained a civil protection order against Baker. Shea received a series of phone messages from Baker in…
Date: March 19, 2014
Docket Number: 39400
Justia Opinion Summary: Jeffrey Murray appealed the district court's order dismissing his petition for post-conviction relief after he pled guilty to felony domestic violence and was sentenced to three years fixed followed by seven years…
Date: March 19, 2014
Docket Number: 40647
Justia Opinion Summary: Robert Hansen pled guilty to the charges of aggravated driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an injury accident. At the sentencing hearing the district court allowed the victim's father to give an informal…
Date: February 25, 2014
Docket Number: 40483
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Alisha Murphy was convicted in 2001 of first degree murder of her husband, James. She appealed the conviction and sentence, which were affirmed in an unpublished opinion. Defendant filed a pro se application…
Date: February 21, 2014
Docket Number: 39567
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-appellant Samuel Glenn appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to dismiss a 2010 driving under the influence (DUI) charge. The State sought an enhanced sentence based upon a 2001 DUI conviction. The…
Date: February 18, 2014
Docket Number: 38769
Justia Opinion Summary: Alan and Diane Johnson were shot and killed in their home. The Johnsons' sixteen-year-old daughter Sarah was home at the time of the shooting. She consistently denied any involvement, but gave several different accounts…
Date: February 10, 2014
Docket Number: 40330
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-Appellant David Lee appealed the district court's order that denied his motion to strike certain language from his acquittal. In that judgment, the court declared that because defendant was "a serious…
