A Sangamon County judge denied Rebecca Arkebauer’s pretrial motions to exclude an assortment of evidence in a medical malpractice case, but she failed to object when the defendants presented the testimony to jurors. On appeal, Arkebauer asked the appellate court to apply an exception to the forfeiture rule. Her argument was based on the notion that the contemporaneous-objection requirement doesn’t apply when “a trial court’s ruling on a motion in limine is so definite and unconditional that the parties may treat it as …