California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Newman, 65 Cal.App.4th 352, 75 Cal.Rptr.2d 921 (Cal. App. 1998):
Respondent points to certain language in Adams, claiming it can be construed as calling for a different result. Immediately after citing Yurko for the proposition that admission of a prior conviction is " 'often of the same magnitude as in the case of a plea of guilty,' " so the trial court " 'must exercise a comparable solicitude in extracting an admission of the truth of alleged prior convictions ' " (People v. Adams, supra, 6 Cal.4th at p. 577, 24 Cal.Rptr.2d 831, 862 P.2d 831), the Adams court went on to state:
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