Does Section 654 of the California Code of Criminal Procedure preclude multiple punishments for a single physical act that violates more than one criminal statute?

Section 654 provides that "[a]n act or omission that is punishable in different ways by different provisions of law shall be punished under the provision that provides for the longest potential term of imprisonment, but in no case shall the act or omission be punished under more than one provision." ( 654, subd. (a).) The statute "generally precludes multiple punishments for a single physical act that violates different provisions of law [citation] as well as multiple punishments for an indivisible course of conduct that violates more than one criminal statute [citations]." (People v. Newman (2015) 238 Cal.App.4th 103, 111-112, italics omitted.) Even if convictions arise from the same

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