(1) All statutes and rules of this state that apply to evidentiary considerations in adult criminal proceedings shall apply to proceedings under this title except as otherwise specifically provided.
In any case brought under this title, the credibility of any witness may be challengedbecause of his or her prior adult felony convictions and juvenile felony adjudications. The fact of such conviction or adjudication may be proved either by the witness through testimony or by other competent evidence.
Prior to the juvenile resting his or her case, the trial court shall advise the juvenileoutside the presence of the jury that:
He or she has a right to testify in his or her own behalf;
If he or she wants to testify, no one, including his or her attorney, can prevent thejuvenile from doing so;
If he or she testifies, the prosecutor will be allowed to cross-examine him or her;
If he or she has been convicted or adjudicated for a felony, the prosecutor shall beentitled to ask him or her about it and thereby disclose it to the jury;
If a felony conviction or adjudication is disclosed to the jury, the jury can be instructed to consider it only as it bears upon his or her credibility;
He or she has a right not to testify and that, if he or she does not testify, the jury shallbe instructed about such right.
Source: L. 96: Entire article amended with relocations, p. 1655, § 1, effective January 1, 1997.
Editor's note: (1) This section was formerly numbered as 19-2-505. Prior to relocation in 1996, the said section 19-2-505 was contained in a title that was repealed and reenacted in 1987. Provisions of that section, as it existed in 1987, are similar to those contained in 19-1-107 as said section existed in 1986, the year prior to the repeal and reenactment of this title.
(2) The provisions of former section 19-2-802 were relocated to sections 19-2-516 and 19-2-908 when this article was amended with relocations in 1996.