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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..
To ascertain whether two statutory offenses constitute two offenses for double jeopardy, which would prohibit successive prosecutions, the Court follows a multiple-element test to determine whether each offense contains an element that is not common to the other. Blockburger v. United States (1932).