When can a defendant be convicted of multiple counts of grand theft?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Davis, B252614 (Cal. App. 2015):
but barred multiple convictions for grand theft when the individual thefts arose from a single plan or scheme, even though each theft was separate and distinct and involved property exceeding the amount needed to establish grand theft. (Whitmer, supra, at p. 739; People v. Kirvin, supra, at p. 1517.)
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