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LENGELE v. STATE

No. A-10679.

295 P.3d 931 (2013)

Bobbie Dee LENGELE, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

February 8, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael T. Schwaiger , Assistant Public Defender, and Quinlan Steiner , Public Defender, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Gary L. Poorman and Charles D. Agerter , Assistant Attorneys General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Michael C. Geraghty , Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

Before: COATS, Chief Judge, and MANNHEIMER and BOLGER, Judges.

OPINION

BOLGER, Judge.

In this appeal, Bobbie Dee Lengele argues that a jury instruction improperly suggested that she could have no "lawful excuse" 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...

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