California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Key, D075816 (Cal. App. 2020):
defendant entertains multiple criminal objectives independent of and not merely incidental to each other, he may be punished for more than one crime even though the violations share common acts or are parts of an otherwise indivisible course of conduct." (People v. Blake (1998) 68 Cal.App.4th 509, 512.)
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