Is a single physical act sufficient to convict a defendant of two separate crimes?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Hudson, C083615 (Cal. App. 2018):

If a single physical act served as the basis for convicting a defendant of two separate crimes, it is irrelevant whether he harbored multiple intents and objectives for purposes of section 654. (Corpening, supra, 2 Cal.5th at p. 316; People v. Louie (2012)

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203 Cal.App.4th 388, 397 ["A single criminal act, even if committed incident to multiple objectives, may be punished only once."].) "Our case law has found multiple criminal objectives to be a predicate for multiple punishment only in circumstances that involve, or arguably involve, multiple acts. The rule does not apply where . . . the multiple convictions at issue were indisputably based upon a single act." (People v. Mesa (2012) 54 Cal.4th 191, 199.)

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