Guest post: Aaron Schwabach on movies and TV getting the law right (or not)

[mollyringle]

Inspired by this episode of the Writing Excuses podcast, in which a legal expert discussed what writers get wrong about the law, I recently asked on my e-newsletter: "Those of you with legal know-how: what bugs you that fiction (books, TV, etc.) keeps getting wrong when it comes to law? Or do you let it all slide in the name of entertainment?"

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[archaeologist_d]

I loved My Cousin Vinny. Glad to hear it was correct a lot of the time.

As a chemist, I always had to laugh at the chemistry/investigation aspects of a TV case. It was usually so badly done that I just would shake my head and mock the storyline with my friends.

[mollyringle]

Ha, yes, the science side of things is often ridiculous too! My dad's a nuclear engineer, and my husband's a hydrologist, and there's frequently some detail that makes one of them scoff and go, "Oh, please."