The Enviable Legal Career Of Perry Mason

How well do you know your fictional lawyers?

Ed. note: Welcome to our latest daily feature, a legal trivia question of the day. We know you lawyerly types are, at heart, type-A personalities that thrive on learning random bits of (mostly) useless trivia. Enjoy!

On the TV show, how many cases did Perry Mason lose at trial?

Hint: The notoriously successful fictional lawyer, Perry Mason, was the star of an eponymous TV show which ran on CBS for 9 years and 271 episodes. Though his success are well known, he doesn’t have the perfect record legend would suggest.

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Answer: Three. In the episodes “The Case of the Terrified Typist,” “The Case of the Witless Witness,” and “The Case of the Deadly Verdict” Mr. Mason suffered a legal loss of some kind. Read more about how it all went down here.

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