California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Johnson, A131317 (Cal. App. 2013):
In any event, assuming for the sake of argument the trial court erred, "generally, violations of state evidentiary rules do not rise to the level of federal constitutional error." (People v. Benavides (2005) 35 Cal.4th 69, 91.) This was a single objection to a single question and, even if the expert had testified that he had found somebody under him to be
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