Is a defendant's failure to propose any modification to a flight instruction forfeits a claim of instructional error?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Rangel, 200 Cal.Rptr.3d 265, 367 P.3d 649, 62 Cal.4th 1192 (Cal. 2016):

The flight instruction was correct, and defendant's failure to propose any modification to the instruction forfeits the claim of instructional error. (People v. Capistrano (2014) 59 Cal.4th 830, 875, 176 Cal.Rptr.3d 27, 331 P.3d 201.)

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