No habeas cases to be heard this week.
To fill up this post, I wanted to briefly talk about a "Perry Mason moment." I am guessing everybody is familiar with the term. Just in case, it's essentially a gotcha moment where a courtroom lawyer can shift responsibility off his client in the midst of a trial and on to someone else. Google search the term and it comes up everywhere in every single context. Fully part of American pop culture lingo. Says so much in just three words.
I became curious to see if I could find when the term originated. I searched and searched and searched but couldn't find anything. Obviously, it started around the time of the show. But when? Was the show still on? After it had ended? I simply couldn't find any history for the term itself. I mentioned my struggle to my wife and she suggested that maybe it was like Brangelina or TomKat or Bennifer. Who knows who originally said it. But someone did and everyone ran with it.
So, to celebrate the term, I have included a true "Perry Mason moment" from the show itself. Of course, the whole thing is absurd. Nothing like this could ever happen in a courtroom. But this was long before cameras in the courtroom, so most viewers back then would have no idea how absurd it all was. Nowadays, I am guessing that even those people who watch TV judge shows (my current favorite is Judge Mills Lane) would laugh at it. Nevertheless, it's still fun to watch:
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