California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Ortiz, C079847 (Cal. App. 2019):
does not forfeit the claim on appeal. (See People v. Brooks (2017) 3 Cal.5th 1, 92 [" '[r]eviewing courts have traditionally excused parties for failing to raise an issue at trial where an objection would have been futile or wholly unsupported by substantive law then in existence' "].)
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