Can a defendant be convicted of multiple crimes arising from a single crime?

Section 654, subdivision (a), provides: "An act or omission that is punishable in different ways by different provisions of law shall be punished under the provision that provides for the longest potential term of imprisonment, but in no case shall the act or omission be punished under more than one provision. An acquittal or conviction and sentence under any one bars a prosecution for the same act or omission under any other." In other words, section 654 prohibits multiple punishments for a single act or omission, even when that act or omission violates more than one statute and thus constitutes more than one crime. Thus, although a defendant may be charged with and convicted of multiple crimes arising from a single act, the defendant may be sentenced only on the crime carrying the highest punishment; the sentence on the other counts arising from the same act must be stayed. (People v. Liu (1996) 46 Cal.App.4th 1119, 1135.)

If, however, the defendant "harbored 'multiple criminal objectives,' which were independent of and not merely incidental

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