Does Section 654 of the California Criminal Code prohibit punishment for more than one crime arising from a single indivisible course of conduct?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Muro, B264993 (Cal. App. 2017):
Section 654 "prohibits punishment for more than one crime arising from a single indivisible course of conduct." (People v. Williams (2013) 57 Cal.4th 776, 781; see Pen. Code, 654, subd. (a) ["An 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"].) If imposition of sentence is suspended and the defendant is placed on probation, however, there is no punishment within the meaning of
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