Opinion ID: 1129186
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Heading: Whether the Circuit Court Properly Admonished and Instructed the Jury.

Text: ¶ 4. Younger suggests the circuit court erred by failing to instruct the jury not to use or possess cell phones while they were acting as jurors in Younger's case. The judge's preliminary instructions prohibited any communication with anyone concerning the case during the trial's duration by stating . . . you are prohibited from having any contact or conversation with the attorneys, parties, witnesses, spectators or anyone else concerning this case. Younger did not object to the judge's admonitions to the jury at the time he gave them and has failed to point to any case law finding preliminary instructions that do not contain specific prohibitions concerning cell phones to be inadequate. The failure to offer a contemporaneous objection to an instruction waives the issue on appeal. See Smith v. State, 729 So.2d 1191, 1210 (Miss.1998).