CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Character and Reputation Evidence
......To Prove Conduct & Prior Bad Acts
.........Prior Juvenile Adjudications
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Absence of jury trial right under juv. law does not, under Apprendi, preclude use of prior juv. adjudication of crim. misconduct to enhance max. sentence for later adult felony offense, i.e. they qualify as strike priors.

Under Nguyen, no constitutional barrier to using prior juvenile adjudications to increase term of sentence under recidivism exception.