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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..
Double jeopardy prevents a person from being charged twice for the  same crime. For example, if a person is found not guilty and then  new evidence is found, they cannot be â¦charged again for that crime,  or have another trial.