California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Cramer, H034348 (Cal. App. 2016):
The Attorney General argues that defendants forfeited this argument by not objecting to the shackling until after all of the former codefendants had been held in contempt. While defendants arguably forfeited the issue by not timely objecting, we have discretion to reach "a question that has not been preserved for review by a party" (People v. Williams (1998) 17 Cal.4th 148, 161, fn. 6), and we exercise that discretion here.
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