California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Flores, 129 Cal.App.4th 174, 28 Cal.Rptr.3d 232 (Cal. App. 2005):
applicability of section 654 depends on the enhancement at issue in People v. Coronado (1995) 12 Cal.4th 145, 48 Cal.Rptr.2d 77, 906 P.2d 1232. In Coronado, the court held that section 654 did not bar the use of a single felony drunk driving conviction to both elevate the defendants later drunk driving conviction to a felony under Vehicle Code section 23175 and enhance his sentence under section 667.5. (Id. at p. 158, 48 Cal.Rptr.2d 77, 906 P.2d 1232.)
In People v. Arndt (1999) 76 Cal.App.4th 387, 90 Cal.Rptr.2d 415, the court held that
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