Can a defendant plead guilty to charges of sexual assault against two different victims at the same time?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Haddad, B286159 (Cal. App. 2018):

"The law prefers trying charged offenses together because doing so ordinarily promotes efficiency. [Citation.] Penal Code section 954 embodies this preference. That section provides as relevant: 'An accusatory pleading may charge two or more different offenses connected together in their commission, . . . or two or more different offenses of the same class of crimes or offenses, under separate counts . . . .' [Citation.] 'Offenses "committed at different times and places against different victims are nevertheless 'connected together in their commission' when they are . . . linked by a ' "common element of substantial importance." ' " ' [Citation.]" (People v. Anderson (2018) 5 Cal.5th 372, 388.)

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