California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Jones, A146095 (Cal. App. 2017):
Defendant appears to concede this point on reply, arguing that even if kidnapping is not a necessarily included offense of kidnapping for ransom, there was clearly only one kidnapping. Defendant reasons that since he had only one intent or objective for this one kidnapping, he should not stand convicted of two kidnappings. But as discussed, in California, a single course of conduct "can lead to convictions 'of any number of the offenses charged.' " (People v. Ramirez, supra, 45 Cal.4th at p. 984.) To the extent defendant is asserting the trial court committed sentencing error under section 654, his argument also fails as his sentence for the kidnapping count was stayed.
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