CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Court Control of Proceedings
......Objections
.........Need for Specific Objection
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Must state specific grounds for evidentiary objection.

No error in allowing unread English transcripts of Spanish conversations into jury room where Ds did not object.

By failing to raise at trial, D waived Kelly/Frye challenge to expert testimony re tests for lidocaine levels in murder victims' bodies.

General objection effective if evidence on its face inadmissible for any purpose.

D forfeited objections to hearsay evidence offered at hearing on P’s injunction by failing to object on specific ground to P’s declaration or documents attached to it.

Failure to make proper objection at trial waives objection unless "fundamental interest" involved.

Failure to specify ground for objection to admission of evidence at trial is waiver of objection.

General objection insufficient; grounds must be particularly stated unless obvious or otherwise known to court.

General objection to question as incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial too broad to reasonably include specific hearsay objection.