Court Opinion

ID: 9851719
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:18:35.523905+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:13.982209
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GUTHRIE, Justice,
Retired, concurring in the result and dissenting in part.
I concur in the result of this opinion but dissent from that part or portion thereof which treats and discusses appellant’s first asserted issue. Appellant cannot properly raise his first contention not having made the proper objections or presented this question to the trial court. He does not in his brief contend or attempt to demonstrate that this involves plain error. Hopkinson v. State, Wyo., 664 P.2d 48, 50, cert. denied 464 U.S. 908, 104 S.Ct. 262, 78 L.Ed.2d 246 (1983), and authorities cited therein. Absent plain error, it is well recognized that the supreme court is not the proper forum in which to raise a constitutional question for the first time. Apodaca v. State, Wyo., 571 P.2d 603, 605 (1977).
Since it is neither proper nor necessary for this court to decide this question, this is dicta. Felske v. State, Wyo., 706 P.2d 257 (1985).