Can a defendant waiver a right to stand trial by jury?

Our sister courts are in accord. (Fortune v. U.S. (D.C. 2013) 59 A.3d 949, 956-957 ["the importance of the right to a jury trial, the explicit

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statutory command in this jurisdiction that trial shall be by jury absent an express waiver by the defendant in open court, and the relative inability of a reviewing court to engage in review of whether the error affected the defendant's rights, all counsel in favor of holding that the failure to make the prescribed determination of waiver is a structural error"]; State v. Williams , supra , 104 P.3d at p. 1153 ["We cannot assume that defendant, by waiving a jury trial on the burglary charge, intended to waive the right to have a jury determine the facts required for imposition of an enhanced dangerous offender sentence"].)