We are asked to decide whether a jury or, if jury trial has been waived, the court may look beyond the statutory elements of a crime of which a defendant was convicted in another state and consider the record of the prior conviction to determine whether the term "enhancement" created by Penal Code section 667, subdivision (a) (hereafter section 667(a)),
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