Does section 654 of the California Criminal Code prohibit punishment for two crimes arising from a single indivisible course of conduct?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from In re Kidd, G045736, Super. Ct. No. 08HF1560 (Cal. App. 2012):
"[S]ection 654 prohibits punishment for two crimes arising from a single indivisible course of conduct" (People v. Perry (2007) 154 Cal.App.4th 1521, 1525) when the defendant had only one objective. Subdivision (a) of section 654 states in part that "[a]n act or omission that is punishable in different ways by different provisions of law shall be punished under the provisions 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."
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