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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..
For instance, if a defendant was convicted of one crime for which he was sentenced to five years, and another offense for which he was sentenced to six years, a concurrent sentence would allow him to serve only six years rather than eleven (as required by consecutive sentencing).