Can a defendant be punished for each violation committed under Section 654 of the California Criminal Code for failing to comply with the same provisions of the law?

Section 654 provides that "[a]n act or omission that is punishable in different ways by different provisions of law shall be punished under the provision that provides for the longest potential term of imprisonment, but in no case shall the act or omission be punished under more than one provision." ( 654, subd. (a).) The section thus bars multiple punishment for offenses arising out of a single occurrence where all were incident to an indivisible course of conduct or a single objective. (People v. Correa (2012) 54 Cal.4th 331, 335.) But, if the defendant harbored multiple or simultaneous objectives, independent of and not merely incidental to each other, the defendant may be punished for each violation committed in pursuit of each objective even though the violations share common acts or were parts of an

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