California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Diaz, E071215 (Cal. App. 2020):
"Section 654 precludes multiple punishments for a single act or indivisible course of conduct. [Citation.]" (People v. Hester (2000) 22 Cal.4th 290, 294.) "'Few if any crimes, however, are the result of a single physical act. "Section 654 has been applied not only where there was but one 'act' in the ordinary sense . . . but also where a course of conduct violated more than one statute and the problem was whether it comprised a divisible transaction which could be punished under more than one statute within the meaning of section 654." [Citation.]'" (People v. Latimer (1993) 5 Cal.4th 1203, 1208.)
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