Biggest Longmire Plot Hole That Still Doesn't Make Any Sense

In particular, there is one big plot hole in it, which did not make sense when the show aired, and still does not make sense now, years after its finale.

Namely, why Henry's trial was held in Absaroka County, the fictional place in Wyoming, where most of the show takes place, even though the crime of which Henry was accused, had occurred in Denver?

The judge was the same Absaroka County judge who appeared in a trial earlier on the show, so there is no doubt about Henry's trial location.

But all of it makes no sense. A trial for murder must be held in the same County, where the crime was committed.

It is clear, of course, why exactly this plot hole was added to the show. In case of Henry going to jail in Colorado, it wouldn't have the same emotional impact.

Placing the location of his jail and trial where it was, allowed the showrunners to introduce the former Cheyenne reservation police chief Malachi as a villain, who confronted Henry in jail, involve Cady as Henry's lawyer, have Branch coming to the rescue with bail, and so on.

In short, they had storytelling reasons to keep Henry in a familiar setting. Too bad that those reasons happened to be in a clear conflict with realism of the show.

Perhaps the writers counted on the audience being not too familiar with the law, so they've thought that as long as they do not draw any special attention to the trial's location, nobody would notice or care.

Or perhaps they've considered that break from reality acceptable – a lot of criminal dramas are deeply unrealistic, after all, and in fact it is much easier to list those which describe the law and police procedures remotely faithfully.

It is just that the fans expected better from Longmire, which actually tried to stick with reality as far as was possible within boundaries of a scripted TV show, and even sacrificed some excitement and drama for that authentic feeling.