Does section 654 of the California Criminal Code apply to a defendant who committed two separate crimes at the same time?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. English, H043575 (Cal. App. 2017):
other hand, if each offense was committed with a different intent and objective, section 654 does not apply. (People v. Blake (1998) 68 Cal.App.4th 509, 512 ["Where a defendant entertains multiple criminal objectives independent of and not merely incidental to each other, he may be punished for more than one crime even though the violations share common acts or are parts of an otherwise indivisible course of conduct."].)
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