What is the effect of a defendant's request to have a trial on allegations of a prior conviction reduced to a bifurcated trial?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rivers, 20 Cal.App.4th 1040, 25 Cal.Rptr.2d 602 (Cal. App. 1993):
As the trial court recognized, defendant's request, coming during trial, was not timely. Although a bifurcated trial on allegations of a prior conviction has some of the elements of a separate trial, the court in People v. Givan (1992) 4 Cal.App.4th 1107, 1114, 6 Cal.Rptr.2d 339, concluded that proceedings on the priors was merely a part of
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