State v. Russell

BAKES, Chief Justice.

This appeal arises from an order of the district court revoking the defendant Charles Russell’s probation and denying his I.C.R. 35 motion for reduction of sentence.1 Russell appealed the district court order, and the Court of Appeals reversed the district court’s revocation of Russell’s probation. The State then filed a petition for review of the Court of Appeals decision, which this court granted.

Russell pled guilty to two counts of obliterating the vehicle identification numbers on snowmobiles in June, 1988, and was sentenced to two concurrent five-year terms.…