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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..
25 Hunter, 103 S. Ct. at 678.26 The Double Jeopardy Clause operates as a presumption against a finding that the legis-lature intends to define multiple offenses and to prescribe multiple punishments, a presump-tion that can be overcome only by clear and unmistakeable evidence.