Does the Attorney General have forfeited his confrontation clause claim because defendant failed to object on the ground at trial?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Edwards, 161 Cal.Rptr.3d 191, 306 P.3d 1049, 57 Cal.4th 658 (Cal. 2013):

The Attorney General asserts that defendant has forfeited his confrontation clause claim because he failed to object on this ground at trial. We recently rejected a similar forfeiture claim, and for similar reasons do so again here. ( People v. Pearson (2013) 56 Cal.4th 393, 461462, 154 Cal.Rptr.3d 541, 297 P.3d 793 [concluding that a defendant who failed at a 1996 trial to challenge as a violation of the confrontation clause the testimony of a substitute pathologist

[306 P.3d 1088]

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