What is the difference between soliciting to murder more than one intended victim with a single motive?

Relying on Morocco, defendant argues, "solicitation to murder more than one intended victim with a single motive encompassing each intended victim constitutes a single crime." (Bolding omitted.) Morocco is distinguishable. There, the appellate court concluded that insufficient evidence supported the jury's guilty verdict on two counts of murder solicitation. (People v. Morocco, supra, 191 Cal.App.3d at p. 1454.) The court reasoned: "The potential victims were a husband and wife. They were to be killed at the same time, presumably by the same means. The record is very unclear as to Morocco's motive in soliciting the killings, but there is certainly no suggestion of an independent motive or objective as to each victim. Whatever the distorted plan Morocco fashioned, it appears to have encompassed both [the husband and wife]." (Ibid.) Indeed, the evidence in Morocco showed that the defendant's motive for killing the husband was that the defendant believed the husband was responsible for the defendant's having been severely beaten in connection with a business deal. (Id. at p. 1451 & fn. 2.) Although the wife

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