Does section 654 of the California Code of Civil Procedure apply to a defendant who committed two separate crimes in the same place?

Alternatively, even if we assume for the sake of argument that defendant's crimes involved a course of conduct rather than a single physical act, section 654 still applies because the only reasonable inference supported by the record is that defendant committed both offenses pursuant to a single intent and objective. Generally, "'"[w]hether a course of criminal conduct is divisible and therefore gives rise to more than one act within the meaning of section 654 depends on the intent and objective of the actor. If all of the offenses were incident to one objective, the defendant may be punished for any one of such offenses but not for more than one."'" (People v. Capistrano, supra, 59 Cal.4th at p. 885, quoting People v. Rodriguez (2009) 47 Cal.4th 501, 507, italics omitted.) "'If [the defendant] entertained multiple criminal objectives which were independent of and not merely incidental to each other, he may be punished for independent violations committed in pursuit of each objective even though the

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