Does a concurrent sentence under section 654 of the California Penal Code need to be stayed?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Vincent, B229075 (Cal. App. 2012):

Penal Code section 654 prohibits punishment under more than one provision of law for acts or omissions that are punishable by different provisions of law. That means that when a defendant is convicted of more than one offense for a single indivisible course of conduct reflecting only one criminal intent or objective, a concurrent sentence is impermissible, and the shorter of the sentences must be stayed. (People v. Perez (1979) 23 Cal.3d 545, 551; People v. Moseley (2008) 164 Cal.App.4th 1598, 1603-

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