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Similarly one may ask, how a judge decides a case?
In order to make this decision, the judge looksat the rules of evidence and discovery in their state or thefederal court. So when judges make decisions about what canor cannot be considered by the jury, they look to rules and lawsand facts. And they apply all of those to the specific casebefore them.
Regarding this, what is a court of fact?
A trier of fact, or finder of fact, is aperson, or group of persons, who determines facts in a legalproceeding, usually a trial. To determine a fact is todecide, from the evidence, whether something existed or some eventoccurred.
Appellate courts are the part of the judicialsystem that is responsible for hearing and reviewing appeals fromlegal cases that have already been heard in a trial-level or otherlower court.