What is the impact of the Neal rule on multiple punishment?

"Latimer also observed: 'We also stress that nothing we say in this opinion is intended to cast doubt on any of the later judicial limitations of the Neal rule. For example, we do not intend to question the validity of decisions finding consecutive, and therefore separate, intents, and those finding different, if simultaneous, intents.... Multiple punishment in those cases remains appropriate.' (5 Cal.4th at p. 1216 [23 Cal.Rptr.2d 144, 858 P.2d 611].)" (People v. Nichols (1994) 29 Cal.App.4th 1651, 1656-1657, 35 Cal.Rptr.2d 478.)