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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..
Judges can run multiple life sentences concurrently, or together, instead of consecutively, but Lehigh County Judge Robert L. Steinberg says killers shouldn't get a volume discount.. If there are two victims, they should be viewed independently, Steinberg said.