Does the sexual assault, criminal threats and assault constitute a completed actus reus for section 654 of the California Criminal Code?

The parties' briefs ignore these recent developments and do not address whether the sex offenses, criminal threats, and assault comprised a single completed actus reus for the purposes of the section 654 analysis. We therefore limit our discussion to whether substantial evidence in the record supports the conclusion that defendant "harbored 'multiple criminal objectives,' which were independent of and not merely incidental to each other," such that "he may be punished for each statutory violation committed in pursuit of each objective, 'even though the violations shared common acts or were parts

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of an otherwise indivisible course of conduct.' " (People v. Harrison, supra, 48 Cal.3d at p. 335.)