How have the courts instructed the jury to consider jury instructions in the context of the facts of a case?

Moreover, jury instructions are not considered in isolation; the entire charge to the jury must be considered in determining whether instructions were correct and adequate. (People v. Holt (1997) 15 Cal.4th 619, 677.) The trial court instructed the jury with CALCRIM No. 200,⁵ which informed the jurors they must decide the facts of the case and that the jury alone must decide what happened. CALCRIM No. 200⁶ also instructed the jury to consider all of the jury instructions together, and to consider them equally. The trial court further instructed the jury with CALCRIM No. 301,⁷ which states that the testimony of only one witness can prove any fact and CALCRIM No. 302,⁸ which

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