People v. Sanders

*734Opinion

CORRIGAN, J.

Here we are called upon to apply two related but distinct concepts: (1) the rule prohibiting multiple convictions based on greater and necessarily included offenses, and (2) Penal Code section 654’s prohibition against multiple punishment when “[a]n act . . . is punishable in different ways by different provisions of law . . . ,”1 Defendant Maurice D. Sanders was convicted on two counts of possessing a firearm after conviction of a felony (former § 12021, subd. (a)(1); hereafter section 12021(a)(1)), and two counts of possessing a firearm after conviction of a specified…