Defendant's double jeopardy rights were not violated since the record reveals that the trial court made only an initial assessment that the evidence of physical injury as to one victim was not "really sufficient" and continued proceedings, hearing a readback of the victim's testimony the next day, before making its final ruling submitting the count to the jury (compare,
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