i saw perry mason when i was a child. my father used to take me to the court house to watch the lawyers practiced law when i was 8 years old. i believe in the mission. i believe -- i am a true believer. i think those images influence children. we have one here in the front row. some to serve as prosecutors first and then become criminal defense attorneys, but many of us want to defend the constitution and those rights from the very beginning, from jump. i think we do not just me to believe it in our hearts, we need to profess it publicly. i do believe, though, that jerry is right. it is not enough to talk about it amongst ourselves. it is a larger public dialogue that needs to happen in terms of the resources, the jury pool, and that means talking to people who identify more with victims. we now there are one in 100 people behind bars. that means one in 100 people knows somebody connected to the criminal justice system. that is a tremendous opportunity for us. that means there are people in every sector of society who ide

those are the same qualities they were looking for when perry mason was popular. old,ra

those are the same qualities they were looking for when perry mason was popular. old, traditional values. it seems to me if afl-cio can buy ad time on dodger games, i do not understand why public defenders cannot do the same thing. the last point i want to make, i served on the california judicial bench council on media. you may or may not know that newspapers are cutting back their coverage of court to all the time. the tradition of the journalistic way of getting your story out does not exist anymore. that is bad but it is also an opportunity. the idea of blogging, the opportunity to step into this void in get your message out directly is incredibly important to your >> carol, what does blogging do for our public image? >>

those are the same qualities they were looking for when perry mason was popular. old, traditional values. it seems to me if afl-cio can buy ad time on dodger games, i do not understand why public defenders cannot do the same thing. the last point i want to make,

mason, call the police? no, not yet. i'll wait and see what happens at 11:30. [ buzzer ] della: he's here, perry. bring him in. gertie to get ahold of paul for me. della: mr. edward carter. mr. mason. uh, won't you sit down, mr. carter? i believe you told miss street this was a matter of extreme urgency. i'm acting on behalf of a friend -- a very dear friend -- a woman who happens to be married to a man who is also a friend of mine. her name? gilman. nancy gilman. i'm visiting her and her husband at the moment. what about mrs. gilman? mr. mason, mrs. gilman is being blackmailed. and you, being her friend, want me to do something about it? yes, sir. that's why i'm here. i want to know what's in her past so that we know what hold a blackmailer has over her. do you know who the blackmailer is? yes, sir, i do. a private detective named vera m. martel. she has an office in las vegas. i'd like to know a little more about nancy gilman -- about her husband, for instance. well, mr. gilman was married before. he has one daughter, muriell. she's 20. he married again, and the second wife, nancy, has a daughter by a prior