Opinion ID: 2378023
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 13

Heading: Issue 5: A photograph of the burned house was properly admitted.

Text: McCaslin challenges the admission of State's Exhibit 29, a photograph taken from inside the bedroom, which shows A.D.'s naked, burned body. He argues the photograph is unduly graphic and more prejudicial than probative. The State contends that this issue was not preserved for appeal because there was no contemporaneous objection during trial. We explained the contemporaneous objection requirement in Issue 1. Moreover, when, as here, a pretrial motion to suppress evidence has been denied, the moving party must object to the admission of the evidence at the time it is offered during trial to preserve the issue for appeal. Houston, 289 Kan. 252, Syl. ¶ 10, 213 P.3d 728. In Houston, we referenced State v. Jones, 267 Kan. 627, 637, 984 P.2d 132 (1999): In Jones, the defendant argued that his counsel's action at the beginning of trial to renew his previous motions to suppress was the equivalent of a timely interposed objection to evidence when it was offered later during trial. The court rejected this argument, [citation omitted], for `why nothing short of an objection at the time evidence is offered satisfied the requirement' of a contemporaneous objection. 289 Kan. at 270, 213 P.3d 728 (quoting Jones, 267 Kan. at 637, 984 P.2d 132). The court denied McCaslin's pre-trial motion to exclude the fire department video and Exhibit 29. His counsel asked for and was granted a continuing objection specific to the fire department video, but requested no continuing objection for Exhibit 29. At trial, the prosecutor offered State's Exhibits 7 through 48 into evidence at the same time, and the defense did not object. Furthermore, after their admission, Fire Investigator Higday discussed the contents of each photograph individually. When he arrived at Exhibit 29, the photograph of A.D.'s body, the prosecutor published it to the jury and discussed it, again without objection. We conclude that McCaslin's failure at trial to renew the objection contained in his pretrial motion to suppress violates the contemporaneous objection rule. The failure precludes our review of the admissibility of Exhibit 29.