California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Prieto, B286250 (Cal. App. 2019):
Section 654, subdivision (a), provides: "An act or omission that is punishable in different ways by different provisions of law shall be punished under the provision that provides for the longest potential term of imprisonment, but in no case shall the act or omission be punished under more than one provision." "'If all of the offenses were incident to one objective, the defendant may be punished for any one of such offenses but not for more than one.' [Citation.]" (People v. Rodriguez (2009) 47 Cal.4th 501, 507.) "The question whether section 654 is factually applicable . . . is for the trial court, and the law gives the trial court broad latitude in making this determination. Its findings on this question
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