Opinion ID: 1351145
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Heading: Introduction of juvenile crimes

Text: (58) As noted above, by stipulation the jury was instructed on defendant's prior criminal record, including an adjudication for lewd conduct when he was 13, and an adjudication for armed robbery when he was 16. He now asserts admission of his juvenile adjudications was prejudicial error. Defendant waived his claim by his counsel's decision to enter the stipulation. In any event, the claim  at least as to the robbery, which is clearly a violent offense  is meritless. ( People v. Lucky (1988) 45 Cal.3d 259, 294-295 [247 Cal. Rptr. 1, 753 P.2d 1052] [adjudication of attempted use of force or violence as a juvenile admissible in aggravation under § 190.3, factor (b)].) The People appear to concede that the record does not demonstrate that the lewd conduct involved attempted use of force or violence, but assert it is nevertheless admissible as a felony conviction under section 190.3, factor (c). Under our analysis in Lucky, supra, 45 Cal.3d at page 295, this view is unpersuasive; and yet, even if we assume penalty phase counsel acted unreasonably in this regard, the misjudgment was plainly harmless in light of the other properly introduced aggravating evidence in this case. ( Strickland v. Washington (1984) 466 U.S. 668, 693-696 [80 L.Ed.2d 674, 697-699, 104 S.Ct. 2052] [reasonable probability standard].)