Does Section 654 of the California Criminal Code require a separate punishment for multiple violations of the same section of the law?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Mendoza, H042130 (Cal. App. 2016):
Section 654 provides, "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." ( 654, subd. (a).) Section 654 prohibits separate punishment for multiple offenses arising from the same act or from a series of
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acts constituting an indivisible course of conduct. (People v. Rodriguez (2009) 47 Cal.4th 501, 507.)
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