STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. DANO R. PHILLIPS, Defendant-Appellant.
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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 3-681 / 12-2132 Filed July 24, 2013 STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. DANO R. PHILLIPS, Defendant-Appellant. ________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Scott County, Joel W. Barrows, Judge. A defendant contends the district court abused its discretion in sentencing him. AFFIRMED. Mark C. Smith, State Appellate Defender, and Robert P. Ranschau, Assistant Appellate Defender, for appellant. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Sheryl A. Soich, Assistant Attorney General, Michael J. Walton, County Attorney, and Dion Trowers, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee. Considered by Eisenhauer, C.J., and Vaitheswaran and Doyle, JJ. 2 VAITHESWARAN, J. Dano Phillips pled guilty to two counts of second-degree theft and one count of credit card fraud. The district court sentenced him to prison terms not exceeding five years on each of the counts, to be served concurrently. On appeal, Phillips contends the district court abused its discretion in declining to place him on probation subject to completion of a residential substance-abuse program. See State v. Thomas, 547 N.W.2d 223, 225 (Iowa 1996) ( Where, as here, a defendant does not assert that the imposed sentence is outside the statutory limits, the sentence will be set aside only for an abuse of discretion. ). In sentencing Phillips, the district court explained that Phillips was fifty-six years old and his criminal history dated back to 1980 and went on for pages and pages, with the same type of conduct he was involved with here. The court cited that criminal history in declining Phillips s request for probation. The court also cited the need to protect society, his previous failures on supervision, and the recommendation of the presentence investigation. These are all pertinent matters. See State v. Lloyd, 530 N.W.2d 708, 713 (Iowa 1995). We conclude the district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to order probation and in sentencing Phillips to prison. Accordingly, we affirm his sentences. AFFIRMED.
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