My Cousin Vinny

In the movie My Cousin Vinny, Vinny Gambini sets on a journey to prove his cousin and his friend’s innocence of a murder case. Bill and Stan are on a road trip to California to the University of California, Los Angeles, where they received a scholarship to attend the university. On the way there they stopped at a convenient store to buy some necessities for the trip. Their hands were full of food and drinks, when Bill put the can of tuna in his jacket because there was no way he could carry any more food.
Once they paid for their snacks they were back on the road. Bill realizes he didn’t pay for the can of tuna and noticed a sheriff car following them. The lights went off and the sheriff pulled them over. They were taken to the station for …show more content…
Vinny was a personal injury lawyer in New York. During this case there were three eye witnesses saying that Bill and Stan were the criminals, who murdered the convenience store clerk. The first witness Sam, said that the boy went into the store while he started making breakfast. He claimed the boys were in the store for five minutes. Vinny Gambini proved that Sam was inconsistent with his story because Vinny asked him what he was making for breakfast and learned Sam was making grits. Vinny had learned it takes twenty minutes to make proper grits for breakfast. Once this information was shared with the jury, Sam was now unsure of his testimony. This made Vinny one step closer to proving his clients innocents. The next witness was George and he claimed that he saw the boys from his window. Vinny provided pictures of George’s muddy window with a rusty window screen and some trees blocking the convenient store. Yet again, another step towards Bill and Stan’s freedom. The last witness called to stand was an elderly woman named Constance Riley. This elderly lady said she seen the boys leave the store from hundred feet away with her prescription glasses. Ms. Riley had been getting stronger glasses over the years, thick lenses. Vinny tested the prescription glasses from fifty feet away and asked her to read how many fingers he was holding up. Ms. Riley incorrectly identify the …show more content…
Both the attorneys questioned this expert. Once they finished the first round of questioning they were put on a short recess. During this recess, Vinny made a break in this case with the help of his fiancés picture of the skid marks the get a way car made, and with the sheriffs’ information of the stolen car. Once court resumed, Vinny called his fiancé to the stand because her father owned a mechanics garage and she was an expert in automotive field. She proved that there was no way the defendant’s car could have made the tire marks outside of the convenient store. The sheriff gathered information on stolen cars at that time in the county. The sheriff shared information that two boys were arrested two days ago that fit the description of the defendants and the description of a stolen vehicle which was the same as the defendants. Inside of the vehicle, they found the weapon that was used in the murder of the convenient store clerk. This part in the movie where the sheriff gathered information for the defense attorney reminded me of the court clerk because the sheriff recovered different data of stolen cars. They both have similar responsibilities during a trial. The state of Alabama dropped all charges against Bill and Stan. This was Vinny Gambianis first trial that he had