Does Section 654 of the California Criminal Code bar multiple sex offenders from receiving multiple punishment for multiple sex crimes committed during a single course of conduct?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Vazquez, 2d Crim. No. B254123 (Cal. App. 2015):
Section 654 bars multiple punishment for multiple convictions that arise out of an indivisible course of conduct committed pursuant to a single criminal objective. (People v. Perez (1979) 23 Cal.3d 545, 551.) Multiple sex offenses committed during a single course of conduct may be punished separately if they are divisible; that is, if they are separate and distinct, do not facilitate each other, and are not incidental to each other.
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