How has Section 654 of the California Penal Code been interpreted and interpreted in the context of a criminal case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Newman, 188 Cal.Rptr.3d 910, 238 Cal.App.4th 103 (Cal. App. 2015):
Section 654 was enacted in 1872.6 Its purpose is to match punishment to the defendant's culpability. (People v. Perez (1979) 23 Cal.3d 545, 551, 153 Cal.Rptr. 40, 591 P.2d 63 ; People v. Vang (2010) 184 Cal.App.4th 912, 915916, 109 Cal.Rptr.3d 655.) To achieve this balance, the statute generally
[238 Cal.App.4th 112]
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