Is larceny committed during a burglary a continuing course of conduct for purposes of section 654 of the Penal Code?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Jarrell, C081846 (Cal. App. 2020):
California courts have held that larceny committed during a burglary is a continuing course of conduct for purposes of section 654. (People v. Bernal (1994) 22 Cal.App.4th 1455, 1459.) And a panel of this court held that larceny of a firearm and possession of that same firearm the following day, without more, constituted a continuous
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course of conduct that could be punished only once. (Atencio, supra, 208 Cal.App.4th at pp. 1244-1245.)
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