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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..
Examples of Two Drunk Driving Cases. The following is a story of two typical criminal defendants who have been charged with a DUI/DWI (driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs). Duncan Smith is a first time offender with a clean record. Sandra Jones is a repeat offender who was convicted of a DUI a year earlier. The story will walk you through the entire process, starting with the arrest all the way to the plea entered in court. In the end, both DUI cases settle with a plea bargain, which happens in approximately 90 percent of all criminal cases. However, the deals they get are very different, which is also often the case in DUI cases.