California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Deville, E057286 (Cal. App. 2013):
From the sequence of events, the trial court could reasonably find defendant had multiple objectives in committing the two crimes. (See, e.g., People v. Osband (1996) 13 Cal.4th 622, 731 [substantial evidence supported the trial court's implied determination that the defendant had multiple objectives of rape and murder in committing his attack on
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the victim]; People v. Hughes (1969) 268 Cal.App.2d 796, 801.) We conclude section 654 did not require the stay of defendant's sentence for corporal injury.
The judgment is affirmed.
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