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PEOPLE v. MESA

No. S185688.

54 Cal.4th 191 (2012)

142 Cal. Rptr. 3d 2

277 P.3d 743

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. TOMMY ANGEL MESA, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

June 4, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard de la Sota , under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , and Kamala D. Harris , Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons , Assistant Attorney General, Steven T. Oetting and Meredith A. White , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

LIU, J.—

Penal Code section 654 provides that a defendant may be punished only once for "[a]n act or omission that is punishable in different ways by different provisions of law." (All statutory references are to the Penal Code.) In each of two separate incidents, defendant Tommy Angel Mesa, a gang member and convicted felon, shot a victim and was convicted of and punished for assault with a firearm, possession of a firearm by...

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