In People v. Clifton (2000) 321 Ill.App.3d 707 255 Ill.Dec. 769, 750 N.E.2d 686, the "certain circumstances" the court held the jury must decide involved the "infliction of bodily injury," while in this case those circumstances consist of the number of "objectives" the appellant entertained during the commission of the offenses that were part of this "course of conduct." The "circumstances" may be of different types in the two cases, but the differences are irrelevant for this purpose. Indeed, if anything it is even clearer the defendant's state of mind while committing the criminal acts is a jury question than that the degree of injury to the victim must be decided by the jury.