California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Barnes, B270755 (Cal. App. 2017):
Barnes contends the trial court should have stayed the terms imposed for the three counts of contempt of court that were based on the incidents of July 8, July 13, and December 25, 2014 because those offenses "were part of the same factual basis" as the three vandalism counts. (See People v. Kramer (2002) 29 Cal.4th 720, 722 ["[w]hen a defendant is convicted of two or more offenses for which section 654 prohibits multiple punishment, the trial court must impose sentence for one of them and stay
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