California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Sanchez, H038294 (Cal. App. 2014):
defendant may be punished only once. [Citation.] If, however, a defendant had several independent criminal objectives, he may be punished for each crime committed in pursuit of each objective, even though the crimes shared common acts or were parts of an otherwise indivisible course of conduct.' [Citation.]" (People v. Conners (2008) 168 Cal.App.4th 443, 458, fn. omitted.)
"We review under the substantial-evidence standard the court's factual finding, implicit or explicit, of whether there was a single criminal act or a course of conduct with a single criminal objective." (People v. Moseley (2008) 164 Cal.App.4th 1598, 1603.)
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