In Florida, a claim must be preserved for review in the trial court before it may be raised on appeal. S ee Young v. State, 141 So.3d 161, 165 (Fla. 2013) (“A defendant must preserve a claim of insufficiency of the evidence through a timely challenge in the trial court.... the motion or objection must be specific in order to preserve the claim for appellate review.”)
However, such a general objection is insufficient to preserve a cause challenge or to preserve a strike of the entire venire panel. See Young v. State , 141 So. 3d 161, 165 (Fla. 2013) (asserting that a boilerplate objection is inadequate); see also Gore v. State , 964 So. 2d 1257, 1265 (Fla. 2007) (citing F.B. v. State , 852 So. 2d 226, 229 (Fla. 2003) ); State v. Pacchiana , 289 So. 3d 857, 862 (Fla. 2020), cert. denied , ––– U.S. ––––, 141 S. Ct. 173, 207 L.Ed.2d 1105 (2020). Therefore, Hilton is not entitled to relief because any claim raised by appellate counsel would have been meritless given that trial counsel's objections on this issue were untimely and too generalized to properly preserve the argument.