Does section 654, subdivision (a) of the California Code of Civil Procedure, Section 654 of the Criminal Code, allow a defendant to be punished for more than one act?

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." "In Neal v. State of California (1960) 55 Cal.2d 11, this court construed the statute broadly: '"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.] [] Whether a course of criminal conduct is divisible and therefore gives rise to more than one act within the meaning of section 654 depends on the intent and objective of the actor. 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.' (Id. at p. 19.)" (People v. Rodriguez (2009) 47 Cal.4th 501, 507

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[italics omitted].) "'If, however, the defendant had multiple or simultaneous objectives, independent of and not merely incidental to each other, the defendant may be punished for each violation committed in pursuit of each objective even though the violations shared common acts or were parts of an otherwise indivisible course of conduct. [Citation.]' [Citation.]" (People v. Hairston (2009) 174 Cal.App.4th 231, 240 (Hairston).)