My Cousin Vinny

My Cousin Vinny

The movie “My Cousin Vinny” is a comedy film of 1992 which is an amusing interpretation of the processes of the criminal justice system. The film depicts the procedures and processes of the court and criminal justice system. There are many things which have been depicted in the movie wrongly but some are the correct depictions of the court proceedings and the criminal justice system. Many professionals have criticized the movie for its incorrect depiction of some of the procedures and processes. The movie taps different elements of the criminal justice system as a whole. There are countless individuals who do not realize the formalities which go into actually being convicted for a crime. My cousin Vinny explore different aspects of these pretrial stages, criminal trials and the major actors in the process of the court hearing (Crede, 2012). There are a number of similarities as well as differences amongst what the movie has portrayed and the actual process of the criminal justice procedure which will be explored in this paper.

The movie revolves around two New Yorker friends, Stan and Bill, who are traveling through Rural Alabama. These two friends make a stop on their way to buy some necessities from a shop. Immediately after they leave, another car, similar to theirs, pulls over. Two men get out of the car and kill the attendant of the store and runs away. Meanwhile the two friends, Stan and Bill, soon realize that they have accidently taken a tuna fish without paying. They soon see a police car on their tail and are asked to pull over (Crede, 2012). They think that they are being arrested for stealing the tuna fish. They are not told for what crime they are being arrested by the police. The police arrest them as the suspects of killing the shop attendant. They contact a cousin, Vincent Gambini, who is a newly turned lawyer to defend themselves. Vinny has never been into an actual court proceeding and this is the first actual court case he will be dealing. He makes countless mistakes during the trial but eventually manages to win the case along with the help of his fiancé.

There are many differences and mistakes which have been made in the movie regarding the court and criminal justice system. When Stan and Bill get pulled over by the police, the sheriff has his gun drawn. In reality, the sheriff should have approached the car without the gun pointing at them and should have been searched thoroughly (Crede, 2012). The sheriff should have made sure that he has gotten the right suspects but instead he was so sure of himself that he immediately arrested them without even doing a body or car search. Bill and Stan didn't even know why they were being arrested. They thought it was because of the tuna fish but instead they were being arrest on the suspicion of murder. The procedure which was followed by Sheriff of arresting the ...