California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Soto, B268716 (Cal. App. 2017):
We reject any suggestion that all assaultive acts that occur in a single day necessarily amount to a single course of conduct. Sometimes, even simultaneous physical acts can be separate for purposes of section 654. (People v. Jones, supra, 54 Cal.4th at p. 358.)
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