How does the multiple victim exception apply when there are multiple victims?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. AARON KALIP MYERS, A126218, A128663, Super. Ct. No. 05-081147-1 (Cal. App. 2011):

A defendant may be punished for the same act where there are multiple victims, but he may only be punished one time for each of the victims. "The multiple victim exception, simply stated, permits one unstayed sentence per victim of all the violent crimes the defendant commits incidental to a single criminal intent. Where one person is the victim of both a shooting at an occupied motor vehicle and a simultaneous assault, the trial court can impose an unstayed sentence for one or the other, but not for both." (People v. Garcia (1995) 32 Cal.App.4th 1756, 1784.)

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