Feb. 15, 2000

Reality Divorced

By Stacy D. Phillips Remember the old television series Perry Mason? Like many others of my generation who grew up during the heyday of this weekly trek into the halls of justice, my first impressions of the practice of law were of those dramatic courtroom scenes wherein, at the last moment, someone rushed to the front of the courtroom, clutching the envelope containing new evidence that ultimately proved the innocence of Mason's client and magically extracted a confession from the real