Bobby Templin smiled as he walked out of the Ada County Courthouse on Tuesday morning.
Minutes earlier, the 34-year-old was seated in 4th District Judge Cynthia Yee-Wallace’s courtroom waiting to hear whether he’d go back to the prison where he was in custody the past three years. He was facing up to five more years behind bars for striking a corrections officer during a large-scale fight that broke out at Idaho State Correctional Center, south of Boise, in January 2023.
His Boise-based attorney, Mike French, attempted — and failed — to get the felony battery charge against Templin dropped last year, arguing that prosecutors charged him in retaliation for “dar(ing) to speak out against the persistent medical neglect he suffered at the hands” of the Idaho Department of Correction…