Does section 654 of the California Penal Code allow for multiple punishment for a single act or omission?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Pierson, H041270 (Cal. App. 2016):
Penal Code section 654 provides, in relevant part: "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." (Pen. Code, 654, subd. (a).) Penal Code section 654 "precludes multiple punishment for a single act or omission, or an indivisible course of conduct." (People v. Deloza (1998) 18 Cal.4th 585, 591.) Penal Code section 654 "does not allow any multiple punishment, including either concurrent or consecutive sentences." (Id. at p. 592.)
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