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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..
Incomplete Crimes: Conspiracy, Attempt & Solicitation. The criminal law punishes attempts, agreements to commit crimes, and requests that other people break the law. When we think of criminal acts, most of the time we assume that the actorâs intentions have been carried outâthe store was robbed, the check was forged.