Is a trial court's failure to state reasons forfeited?

A trial court's failure to state reasons is forfeited, however, unless raised below. (People v. Boyce (2014) 59 Cal.4th 672, 730.) Here, defense counsel never objected that the trial court had failed to state reasons. Quite the contrary he conceded that the forcible sex offenses were "statutorily required to be run consecutively," and thus, essentially, that no statement of reasons was required.

Defendant notes that forfeiture does not apply when there was no "meaningful opportunity to object . . . ." (People v. Scott (1994) 9 Cal.4th 331, 356.) He argues that defense counsel had no such opportunity, because the trial court interrupted him and told

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