In what circumstances will a defendant waive his right to a jury trial?

issues" at trial.² Additionally, defendant had prior experience with the criminal justice system, having pleaded guilty to two prior offenses in Oregon and one in Washington State. In 1993, in connection with his guilty plea in Washington, he signed a waiver stating that he "fully underst[ood]" his right to a jury trial. (See Parke v. Raley (1992) 506 U.S. 20, 37, 113 S.Ct. 517, 121 L.Ed.2d 391 ["evidence of a defendant's prior experience with the criminal justice system [is] relevant to the question whether he knowingly waived constitutional rights"] );

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People v. Langdon (1959) 52 Cal.2d 425, 432, 341 P.2d 303 [observing, in ascertaining whether there had been a knowing and intelligent waiver of the jury trial right, that the defendant "had also been before the

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