California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Anderson, 221 Cal.App.3d 331, 270 Cal.Rptr. 516 (Cal. App. 1990):
The two possible constructions of subdivision (c), however, are not equally reasonable. The interpretation that subdivision (c) does not create an exception to application of section 654 for offenses which form an indivisible transaction would leave entirely without meaning the statutory language "whether or not the crimes were committed during a single transaction." "[A] statute should not be given a construction that results in rendering one of its provisions nugatory. [Citations.]" (People v. Craft, supra, 41 Cal.3d 554, 560,
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