State v. Long

48 P.3d 595 (2002)

98 Hawai`i 348

STATE of Hawai`i, Respondent/Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.

Dewitt LONG, aka Lamar Long Dewitt, Petitioner/Defendant-Appellant.

No. 23473.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

June 21, 2002.

Joseph S. Mottl, on the petition for petitioner/defendant-appellant.

LEVINSON, RAMIL, and ACOBA, JJ.; and MOON, C.J., Dissenting, with whom NAKAYAMA, J. Joins.

Opinion of the Court by ACOBA, J.

We hold that, while an objection of "insufficient foundation" is generally not adequate to preserve the objection for appeal, the basis for the objection in this case was evident from the context in which it…