What is the effect of a trial court's failure to sustain a defendant's evidentiary objections?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Gandhi v. Dakhlallah, B251185 (Cal. App. 2015):

The trial court's failure to rule on defendant's objections, if there was such a failure, only means that we can review those objections on appeal. (Reid v. Google, Inc., supra, 50 Cal.4th at pp. 534-535.) As noted, defendant has not provided any argument concerning the evidentiary objections, except as to the late filed document. Moreover,

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even if all of defendants objections should have been sustained, the outcome would not be affected.

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