What is the test for violating section 654 of the California Criminal Code when a defendant is convicted of multiple crimes arising from a single indivisible course of conduct?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Walker, B266706 (Cal. App. 2017):
Section 654 prohibits punishment for multiple crimes arising from a single indivisible course of conduct. (People v. Latimer (1993) 5 Cal.4th 1203, 1207-1208.) The application of section 654 "turns on the defendant's objective in violating" multiple statutory provisions rather than temporal proximity.
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