California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Liu, 46 Cal.App.4th 1119, 54 Cal.Rptr.2d 578 (Cal. App. 1996):
We conclude that under section 654, appellant's conviction for possession of a silencer could not be separately punished because it was an indivisible part of the same course of conduct as the conspiracies. It was error to impose a concurrent sentence for that conviction. (People v. Miller (1977) 18 Cal.3d 873, 886-887, 135 Cal.Rptr. 654, 558 P.2d 552.) We therefore stay the concurrent sentence for possession of a silencer.
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