California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Walker, A151650 (Cal. App. 2019):
Appellant argues that the trial court's imposition of concurrent sentences on his convictions violated section 654. "Section 654 precludes multiple punishment for a single act or omission, or an indivisible course of conduct." (People v. Deloza (1998) 18 Cal.4th 585, 592; People v. Corpening (2016) 2 Cal.5th 307, 311.) The prohibition includes concurrent sentences; where section 654 applies, sentence must be imposed on the most serious of the offenses and on the other offenses must be imposed and stayed. (Deloza, at p. 592.) Respondent agrees that appellant's sentence on count 2 must be
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