Lengele v. State

OPINION

BOLGER, Judge.

In this appeal, Bobbie Dee Lengele argues that a jury instruction improperly suggested that she could have no "lawful exeuse" for her failure to pay child support if she had ever voluntarily terminated her employment. We agree that this instruction was an incomplete and potentially misleading statement of Alaska law. But we conclude that Lengele failed to tell the trial judge the specific grounds for her objection to this instruction, and that her general objection was inadequate to preserve this issue for appeal. And when we review the evidence submitted at trial, the…