Can there be only one forged document per forged document?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Groce, D055456, No. SCD195250 (Cal. App. 2010):
conviction, holding that even though the defendant violates both section 470(a) by fraudulently signing the instrument and section 470(d) by fraudulently passing the same instrument, there could be only one section 470 conviction per forged document. (People v. Ryan, supra, 134 Cal.App.4th at pp. 364-371.)
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