California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Pineda, A151278 (Cal. App. 2018):
Section 654 precludes " 'multiple punishments for a single act or indivisible course of conduct. [Citation.]' [Citation.] . . . 'The divisibility of a course of conduct depends upon the intent and objective of the actor, and if all the offenses are incident to one objective, the defendant may be punished for any one of them but not for more than one.' [Citation.] 'The defendant's intent and objective are factual questions for the trial court; [to permit multiple punishments,] there must be evidence to support a finding the defendant formed a separate intent and objective for each offense for which he was sentenced. [Citation.]' " (People v. Coleman (1989) 48 Cal.3d 112, 162.)
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