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* Director's DVD commentary mentions this trope by name to point out that Bill's ''Italian American'' mother is conspicuously absent throughout the trial. Scenes were shot to explain this away by having her suffer a heart attack -- which is referenced when Bill mentions her health isn't so good right now -- but they detracted from the film's momentum and were cut. Reportedly, screening audiences never noticed.
* Stan automatically assumes that when a man he's never seen before is let into the cell and begins talking about how he can help them, that it's anal rape time; and he never notices that the guy he presumes is "Bubba" is not speaking like everyone else they've met, but has a Brooklyn accent you could cut with a knife.
** Of course, Stan is terrified and not thinking straight. Also, it's plausible for an Alabama prison to have a couple prisoners from out of state. Stan ''himself'' is a prisoner from out of state.
* Director's DVD commentary mentions this trope by name to point out that Bill's ''Italian American'' mother is conspicuously absent throughout the trial. Scenes were shot to explain this away by having her suffer a heart attack -- which is referenced when Bill mentions her health isn't so good right now -- but they detracted from the film's momentum and were cut. Reportedly, screening audiences never noticed.
* Stan automatically assumes that when a man he's never seen before is let into the cell and begins talking about how he can help them, that it's anal rape time; and he never notices that the guy he presumes is "Bubba" is not speaking like everyone else they've met, but has a Brooklyn accent you could cut with a knife.
** Of course, Stan is terrified and not thinking straight. Also, it's plausible for an Alabama prison to have a couple prisoners from out of state. Stan ''himself'' is a prisoner from out of state.
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* Director's DVD commentary mentions this trope by name to point out that Bill's ''Italian American'' mother is conspicuously absent throughout the trial. Scenes were shot to explain this away by having her suffer a heart attack -- which is referenced when Bill mentions her health isn't so good right now -- but they detracted from the film's momentum and were cut. Reportedly, screening audiences never noticed.
* Stan automatically assumes that when a man he's never seen before is let into the cell and begins talking about how he can help them, that it's anal rape time; and he never notices that the guy he presumes is "Bubba" is not speaking like everyone else they've met, but has a Brooklyn accent you could cut with a knife.
** Of course, Stan is terrified and not thinking straight. Also, it's plausible for an Alabama prison to have a couple prisoners from out of state. Stan ''himself'' is a prisoner from out of state.
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* Stan's anxiousness about being a Jew from New York in the South, and later believing they are purposely being scapegoated for the murder rather than the honest mistake it ends up being, makes a lot more sense if you know the real-life history of what happened to [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank Leo Frank]], a Jew from New York, who was accused of murder in Georgia in 1913. To put it mildly, Leo wasn't as lucky as Stan, and his story still haunts the Jewish American community, likely including Stan's family.
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* Judge Haller is already a big stickler for the rules, but Vinny's lie that he's been practicing for 16 years doesn't help. While he had to lie to be allowed to work his cousin's case, it makes his lack of practice or knowledge of procedure look like flagrant disrespect, because a lawyer practicing for 16 years would know better.
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** That's the ''least'' of the county's judicial problems. The cops and the court have a laundry list of very illegal procedure violations. Just a few examples include not allowing an attorney to practice purely because of discrimination, excepting an informal confession, and the prosecutor not giving the defense any of the collected evidence until he asks. In the real world, the whole county's judicial system would probably be shut down for a time once outsiders found out just how bad it was.
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* Stan's anxiousness about being a Jew from New York in the South, and later believing they are purposely being scapegoated for the murder rather than the honest mistake it ends up being, makes a lot more sense if you know the real-life history of what happened to [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank Leo Frank]], a Jew from New York, who was accused of murder in Georgia in 1913. To put it mildly, Leo wasn't as lucky as Stan, and his story still haunts the Jewish American community. It's also why it's so important that Vinny proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the boys were innocent rather than just getting them exonerated on a lack of evidence.
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* Stan's anxiousness about being a Jew from New York in the South, and later believing they are purposely being scapegoated for the murder rather than the honest mistake it ends up being, makes a lot more sense if you know the real-life history of what happened to [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank Leo Frank]], a Jew from New York, who was accused of murder in Georgia in 1913. To put it mildly, Leo wasn't as lucky as Stan, and his story still haunts the Jewish American community. It's also why it's so important that Vinny proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the boys were innocent rather than just getting them exonerated on a lack of evidence. community, likely including Stan's family.
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* Stan's anxiousness about being a Jew from New York in the South, and later believing they are purposely being scapegoated for the murder rather than the honest mistake it ends up being, makes a lot more sense if you know the real-life history of what happened to [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank Leo Frank]], a Jew from New York, who was accused of murder in Georgia in 1913. To put it mildly, Leo wasn't as lucky as Stan, and his story still haunts the Jewish American community. It's also why it's so important that Vinny proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the boys were innocent rather than just getting them exonerated on a lack of evidence.
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* The flimsiness of the eyewitness testimony in general, while laughable here, reflects the real-world issues with eyewitness testimony, which was the cornerstone to legal cases for ''centuries'', and is still a key factor today. How many other innocents like the Bill and Stan have been prosecuted based on such flimsy testimony and ''didn't'' win their cases?
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* The flimsiness of the eyewitness testimony in general, while laughable here, reflects the real-world issues with eyewitness testimony, which was the cornerstone to legal cases for ''centuries'', and is still a key factor today. How many other innocents like the Bill and Stan have been prosecuted based on such flimsy testimony and ''didn't'' win their cases?
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There is no evidence any of the witnesses lied - they just misjudged and exaggerated.
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* The entire case (and a capital murder one at that) was built around a half dozen witnesses who outright lied or were grossly mistaken. What else has this county's justice system been up to?
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* The entire case (and a capital murder one at that) was built around a half dozen witnesses who outright lied or were grossly mistaken. What else has this county's justice system been up to?to?
* The flimsiness of the eyewitness testimony in general, while laughable here, reflects the real-world issues with eyewitness testimony, which was the cornerstone to legal cases for ''centuries'', and is still a key factor today. How many other innocents like the Bill and Stan have been prosecuted based on such flimsy testimony and ''didn't'' win their cases?
* The flimsiness of the eyewitness testimony in general, while laughable here, reflects the real-world issues with eyewitness testimony, which was the cornerstone to legal cases for ''centuries'', and is still a key factor today. How many other innocents like the Bill and Stan have been prosecuted based on such flimsy testimony and ''didn't'' win their cases?
