I never went to law school.
Neither did Abraham Lincoln. Both Lincoln and I came about our knowledge of the law by good old-fashioned brow sweat. He studied a friend’s law books. I took the more modern approach. I watched reruns of the black and white “Perry Mason” TV show.
A generation of Americans learned the law from Mr. Mason. Mason was a criminal defense attorney. District Attorney Hamilton Burger (yes, Ham Burger, though we were never treated to that informal title) played the Washington Generals to Mason’s Harlem Globetrotters.
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Mason never lost and we were entertained along the way. Mason always got his client off by proving who had done the dastardly act. The most important lesson I learned from Mr. Mason is that the guy who dunnit always had two traits – motive and opportunity.