Does section 654, subdivision (a) of the California Criminal Code apply if a court imposes a concurrent or consecutive sentence for a separate crime arising from an indivisible course of conduct?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Wright, C076482 (Cal. App. 2015):
However, section 654, subdivision (a) applies regardless of whether a court imposes a concurrent or a consecutive sentence for a separate offense arising from an indivisible course of conduct. (People v. Deloza (1998) 18 Cal.4th 585, 594 ["Section 654 does not allow any multiple punishment, whether concurrent or consecutive"].) "[A] statute may prevent or negate the operation of section 654 even in
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