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PEOPLE v. SANDERS

No. S191341.

55 Cal.4th 731 (2012)

149 Cal. Rptr. 3d 26

288 P.3d 83

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MAURICE D. SANDERS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

November 19, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Navarro , under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell , Assistant Attorney General, Janet E. Neeley and Catherine Tennant Nieto , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

CORRIGAN, J. —

Here we are called upon to apply two related but distinct concepts: (1) the rule prohibiting multiple convictions based on greater and necessarily included offenses, and (2) Penal Code section 654's prohibition against multiple punishments when "[a]n act ... is punishable in different ways by different provisions of law ...."1 Defendant...

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