In re Adams

In In re Adams (1975) 14 Cal.3d 629, the California Supreme Court held that the petitioner was improperly sentenced for five counts of transporting drugs based on the single act of delivering an attache case and several plastic bags containing five different types of drugs to another person's car, since the "petitioner's simultaneous transportation of the various drugs in his possession was clearly motivated by the single objective of delivering them to a single person." (In re Adams, supra, 14 Cal.3d at p. 632, 635.) The Court distinguished cases holding that simultaneous possession of different types of drugs may properly be multiply punished, and commented, "In each of these drug possession cases, the defendant's possession may or may not have been motivated by a single intent and objective, for one may possess drugs for a variety of reasons." (In re Adams, supra, 14 Cal.3d at p. 635.)