Does section 654 of the California Criminal Code allow a defendant to be punished for multiple criminal objectives committed in pursuit of each one?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Ramirez, 6 Cal.App.4th 1762, 8 Cal.Rptr.2d 624 (Cal. App. 1992):

Even under section 654, if the defendant "entertained multiple criminal objectives which were independent of and not merely incidental to each other, he may be punished for independent violations committed in pursuit of each objective even though the violations shared common acts or were parts of an otherwise indivisible course of conduct." (People v. Beamon (1973) 8 Cal.3d 625, 639, 105 Cal.Rptr. 681, 504 P.2d 905.) "For example, a defendant who chooses a means of murder that places a planeload of passengers in danger, or results

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