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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..
Perhaps surprisingly, in court evidence of âprior similar acts, wrongs or crimesâ is not admissible to prove that a subject is guilty of similar current charges (âIf he did it once, he probably did it againâ), but can be used for other, narrower purposes, such as to prove âmotive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or to rebut a claim of accident or mistake, if raised by the subject.