Grisham audiences will be less forgiving of mistakes than My Cousin Vinny['s audience]
Well this is wrong... apparently...
There's the ABA Journal. That's the "American Bar Association Journal"
From Wikipedia.
The ABA Journal is a monthly legal trade magazine and the flagship publication of the American Bar Association.
On their website:
http://www.abajournal.com/gallery/top25movies/89
Yep, that's right, number 3! Behind "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "12 Angry Men!"
They even say it has their:
best-ever introduction to the rules of criminal procedure, and a case that hinges on properly introduced expert tesÂtimony
In fact, it's said that the film's director has a law degree, and insisted that court proceedings be accurate.
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judge Richard Posner, in his book "Law and Literature" wrote that
My Cousin Vinny is particularly rich in practice tips: how a criminal defense lawyer must stand his ground against a hostile judge, even at the cost of exasperating the judge, because the lawyer's primary audience is the jury, not the judge; how cross-examination on peripheral matters can sow serious doubts about a witness's credibility; how props can be used effectively in cross-examination (the tape measure that demolishes one of the prosecution's eyewitnesses); how to voir dire, examine, and cross-examine expert witnesses; the importance of the Brady doctrine ... how to dress for a trial; contrasting methods of conducting a jury trial; and more.
In other words, "My Cousin Vinny" is a movie directed by an accredited legal expert, which is often lauded over by other legal professionals across the field, and to this day. So its audience is pretty sophisticated.
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