Does Section 654 of the California Criminal Code require a separate punishment for each crime committed against different victims?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. E.H. (In re E.H.), 2d Juv. No. B275683 (Cal. App. 2017):
Section 654 does not apply, and separate punishments may be imposed, for each crime of violence committed against different victims, even if the defendant "entertains a single principal objective during an indivisible course of conduct[.]" (People v. Andrews (1989) 49 Cal.3d 200, 225; People v. Martin (2005) 133 Cal.App.4th 776, 781.)
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