California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Torres, F067249 (Cal. App. 2015):
Section 954 provides "[a]n accusatory pleading may charge two or more different offenses connected together in their commission, or different statements of the same offense ..., under separate counts" and the "prosecution is not required to elect between the different ... counts set forth in the accusatory pleading." However, a defendant may not be convicted of multiple counts of the same offense for the same act pursuant to section 954. (People v. Coyle (2009) 178 Cal.App.4th 209, 217.)
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