California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Applegate, C071070 (Cal. App. 2017):
Penal Code section 654 bars multiple punishments for the same act or omission unless the defendant entertained multiple criminal objectives which were independent of and not merely incidental to each other. (People v. Beamon (1973) 8 Cal.3d 625, 639.) Defendant contends that his concurrent sentence for evading a police officer must be stayed pursuant to Penal Code section 654 because his conduct in transporting the methamphetamine and his flight from the police officers was pursuant to a single indivisible course of conduct pursuant to a sole objective. He is mistaken.
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