California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Joachim, A140719 (Cal. App. 2015):
Section 654 proscribes multiple punishment whenever more than one offense is committed during an indivisible course of conduct with a single objective.3 In applying section 654, a "court must impose a sentence on all counts, but stay execution of sentence as necessary to prevent multiple punishment." (People v. Alford (2010) 180 Cal.App.4th
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