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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..
68 F. Multiple Convictions with Aggregate 5 Year Sentences This ground of inadmissibility 69 is straightforward. A person with two or more criminal convictions of any kind â including two separate counts, from the same eventâ who has been sentenced to a total period of confinement of five years is inadmissible. A sentence to confinement counts for immigration purposes regardless of suspension.