§ 312 [Jury Decides Questions of Fact]

When a case goes to trial with a jury, the jury is the one that decides what the facts are. This means the jury looks at all the evidence presented, both testimony and other proof, and figures out what actually happened.

The jury also gets to decide how much weight to give each piece of evidence. This includes deciding whether they believe a witness who testified in court, and whether they believe statements made by someone outside of court that got repeated during the trial (called hearsay). The jury weighs these things and decides how trustworthy each person or statement is.

The judge still has some control over this process. For example, the judge decides what evidence the jury is allowed to hear in the first place. But once the jury has the evidence in front of them, it is up to the jury, not the judge, to decide what to believe and how much each piece of evidence matters.