Can a defendant receive a concurrent sentence under section 654 of the California Criminal Code for failing to comply with the terms of a conditional discharge?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Drummond, F076051 (Cal. App. 2019):

and objective" of the actor. [Citation.] If all of the offenses are incident to one objective, the court may punish the defendant for any one of the offenses, but not more than one. [Citation.] If, however, the defendant had multiple or simultaneous objectives, independent of and not merely incidental to each other, the defendant may be punished for each violation committed in pursuit of each objective even though the violations shared common acts or were parts of an otherwise indivisible course of conduct.' " (People v. Hairston (2009) 174 Cal.App.4th 231, 240.) Section 654 does not allow concurrent sentences. (People v. Deloza (1998) 18 Cal.4th 585.)

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