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5 By prohibiting multiple punishments for a single criminal act Penal Code section 654. affords protection beyond and different from that given by either the constitutional proscrip-. tion of subsequent jeopardy or the implementation of that doctrine by Penal Code section 1023..
Where even a single act constitutes multiple separate criminal offenses, as. defined in section 775.021(4)(a), the offender must be sentenced separately for. each offense unless one of the three exceptions in section 775.021(4)(b) applies. Capital sexual battery (like any other sexual battery) and lewd or lascivious.