California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Avila, No. B224340, No. VA104553 (Cal. App. 2011):
"An act or omission that is punishable in different ways by different provisions of law shall be punished under the provision that provides for the longest potential term of imprisonment, but in no case shall the act or omission be punished under more than one provision." ( 654, subd. (a).) Under section 654, "if multiple offenses committed by a defendant were 'incident to one objective, ' the defendant 'may be punished for any one of such offenses but not for more than one.' (Neal v. State of California [(1960)] 55
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