California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Salgado, E063247 (Cal. App. 2017):
Section 654 does not preclude punishment for each sex crime committed during a continuous 45-to-60-minute attack (or, as here, a 35 minute attack), notwithstanding a defense assertion that they are part of an indivisible transaction furthering a single intent and objective of obtaining sexual gratification. (People v. Perez (1979) 23 Cal.3d 545, 552, 553 [reasoning that a defendant who attempts to achieve sexual gratification by committing a number of base criminal acts is more culpable than a defendant who commits only one such act].)
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