POCATELLO — The Idaho Court of Appeals affirmed the sentences of a Shelley man who wounded a Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputy in the fall of 2011 when he opened fire on police officers.

    Scott Daniel Parker was shot three times during the exchange with police in October of 2011 and recovered from those injuries. He was charged with several felony counts and ultimately pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated battery on certain personnel, one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and one count of felony attempting to elude officers.

    He was sentenced by Seventh District Judge Dane Watkins Jr., to six years and six months fixed and three years and six months indeterminate on each of the aggravated battery convictions, both to run consecutive to each other.

    Watkins then sentenced Parker to five years fixed on the firearm possession conviction, running concurrent to the other two charges. Parker was sentenced to two years fixed on the eluding conviction and Watkins ran that sentence consecutive to the other three.

    Parker, who was on parole for a previous conviction of assault on certain personnel when the October 2011 incident occurred, filed a Rule 35 motion seeking a reduction in his sentences. Watkins denied much of the motion but did decide to run Parker’s sentence on a prior conviction concurrent to the newer sentences.

    Parker then appealed his sentence and Watkins’ decision on the Rule 35 motion to the Idaho Court of Appeals, which released an unpublished decision on Friday affirming the lower court’s sentences.

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