If a defendant has committed multiple criminal objectives in pursuit of different criminal objectives, can he be punished for each of them?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Vigeant, B241378 (Cal. App. 2013):
If, on the other hand, "the [defendant] entertained multiple criminal objectives which were independent of and not merely incidental to each other, he may be punished for independent violations committed in pursuit of each objective even though the violations shared common acts or were parts of an otherwise indivisible course of conduct." (People v. Beamon (1973) 8 Cal.3d 625, 639.)
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