State v. Jane Doe (Juvenile)

BRODY, Justice.

I. NATURE OF THE CASE

This case addresses whether a juvenile court has jurisdiction to reduce a juvenile's sentence once the juvenile is committed to state custody and the time for appeal has run. Relying on Idaho Criminal Rule 47, the rule which governs the filing of motions generally in criminal cases, Jane Doe filed a motion to modify disposition requesting that the juvenile court place her back on probation after sentence had been imposed and modify its previous computation of credit for time served. The juvenile court held that Doe's motion was actually a motion to reduce…