Sherman v. Warden, Nevada State Prison, 10378
| Decision Date | 12 July 1978 |
| Docket Number | No. 10378,10378 |
| Citation | 94 Nev. 412,581 P.2d 1278 |
| Parties | James Vearl SHERMAN, Appellant, v. WARDEN, NEVADA STATE PRISON, Respondent. |
| Court | Nevada Supreme Court |
James Vearl Sherman has appealed from the district court's denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus, alleging that the court was without jurisdiction to revoke his probation. While on probation Sherman was arrested pursuant to a warrant, and charged with violation of the terms of his probation. Before a probation hearing was held some fifty-three days later, the term of probation expired. Sherman argues that this expiration deprived the district court of jurisdiction to hear the revocation. We agree with the district court that jurisdiction was not lost.
The power of the trial court to terminate, modify, or revoke probation flows directly from statutory grant, and "must be exercised within the time and upon the terms indicated by the statute." Keller v. Superior Court in & for Cty. of Maricopa, 22 Ariz.App. 122, 524 P.2d 956 (1974); In re Griffin,67 Cal.2d 343, 62 Cal.Rptr. 1, 431 P.2d 625 (1967). While NRS 176.215, as that statute read at the time of the proceedings below, 1 clearly requires that a warrant be issued and the probationer be arrested "during probation," there exists no requirement in the statute that the probation revocation hearing be held prior to the expiration of the pronounced term of probation. In each of the cases arising in other jurisdictions cited to us by the appellant, the applicable revocation statute has specifically required that the revocation, rather than the arrest, take place prior to the expiration of the term of probation. See Keller v. Superior Court in & for Cty. of Maricopa, supra; In re Griffin, supra; Pina v. State, 100 Ariz. 47, 410 P.2d 658 (Ariz.1966).
In the absence of specific statutory direction, we decline to construe NRS 176.215 as it existed prior to amendment to deprive the district court of jurisdiction over a probation revocation proceeding merely because the final revocation occurs after the probation term has expired. Such a construction would only result in a "defacto reduction in the pronounced term of probation," Keller v. Superior Court in & for Cty. of Maricopa, supra, 524 P.2d at 958, since a revocation procedure involving careful attention to the probationer's procedural due process...
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