California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rodriguez, A134782 (Cal. App. 2014):
Section 654 does not proscribe multiple punishment where the course of conduct, although directed to one objective, is divisible in time. (People v. Gaio (2000) 81 Cal.App.4th 919, 935.) "This is particularly so where the offenses are temporally separated in such a way as to afford the defendant opportunity to reflect and to renew his or her intent before committing the next one, thereby aggravating the violation of public security or policy already undertaken." (Ibid.)
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