What are the consequences of a conviction for transporting a controlled substance for sale?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Stokes, A149466 (Cal. App. 2017):

He also claims that his four-year sentence for transporting a controlled substance for sale with a consecutive eight-month sentence for possession of a controlled substance violates Penal Code section 654 because the acts of possessing a controlled substance and transporting it are indivisible. Thus, he should not have been punished twice for the same act, and the eight-month consecutive sentence for possession was illegally imposed because it should have been stayed under Penal Code section 654. (See People v. Tinker (2013) 212 Cal.App.4th 1502, 1506.)2

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