How have the courts treated defense counsel's objections at trial?

Here, the trial court did not abuse its discretion by concluding that the misconduct was not prejudicial. In each instance, it sustained defense counsel's objection, and it instructed the jury to disregard the excluded evidence. At the end of the trial, the trial court also gave the standard instruction that (1) the attorneys' questions are not evidence; (2) if the court sustained an objection, the jury must ignore the question; and (3) if the court ordered testimony stricken from the record, the jury must disregard it. (CALCRIM No. 104.) We normally presume that the jury followed these instructions. (People v. Bennett, supra, 45 Cal.4th at p. 595.)