>> just passing. >> osgood: week after week perry mason took on seemingly unwinnable murder cases, casesd with mason's last- minute discovery of evidence.... >> did you ever see this before? >> osgood:... that led the real killer to make a dramatic courtroom confession. >> what else could i do but kill her? >> osgood: early stanley gardner shows no sympathy to the district attorney. >> i certainly wouldn't want to let hamilton burg erwin a case by having an innocent person convicted. >> reporter: the series ran for nine seasons, and 271 episodes. with gardner himself playing the role of the judge in the series finale. "the case of the final fadeout." >> court stands adjourned until 2:00 this afternoon. >> reporter: and though early stanley gardner and raymond burr are both long gone now, perry mason lives on in reruns. >> you mentioned perry mason. >> reporter: he even made it to the united states senate in 2009 when senator al franken challenged supreme court nominee and confessed perry mason fan to name the one case perry mason lost. >> you don't remember that case? >> i know i should

>> wouldn't perry mason say answer the question? >> answer the question.e has answered it in the past, in '08 he said he wanted electricity prices to go through the roof, you know, steven chu energy secretary says, about the-- >> steven chu's, somehow we have to significant out gasoline to rise to the level of europe. >> $10 a gallon, folks, run on that. >> i don't think he wants this just before his reelection and i think it's obvious he doesn't and i think the president used that press conference very effectively to take the limelight off of the republican race and to really score some points on foreign policy by saying, you, the republican candidates, you are not being serious when it comes to this very important issue of going to war in iran. i think he-- this is a win for the president. but i thought that the way he didn't answer that question was a master stroke because he gives the impression that oh, no, i don't want gas prices to go up, but he doesn't answer the question. >> he doesn't answer the question and i think the treatment of ed henry look

a lot of us grew up watching "perry mason." you don't see those kinds of movies now it seems to be almost seasonal that you have, you know, either positive or negative portrayals. but it seems to follow a certain cycle. we have so many shows on tv now about, you know, police and law enforcement. i think we have, what, maybe three different "c.s.i. i "series now, "law & order" parts one, two, and three. what do you think counts for the portrayal of our justice system and how it shifts over time? and also if you've seen in terms of what writers have done or haven't done. >> you know, i was -- when i was listening to mr. serra, i was thinking, you know, actually the law is this huge thing. and there are parts of it that work really well. and when i started out, i was a young lawyer at a large wall street law firm. and believe it or not, we did really good work. and since we typically litigate against or are involved with other large corporate law firms, the other people did railly good work. and since we were typically in federal

there were no big matlock or perry mason moment where he breaks down or admits he does anything wrong had to advance that his car was broken. when he was pressing on the brakes, they didn't work. he also needed to humanize -- megyn: it's unbelievable that this $250,000 bentley malfunctioned and had nothing to do with liquor. i'm not on the jury but i'm human with common sense. >> they are hoping the jurors will listen to the experts and find differently. >> frankly it doesn't pass the smell test. and he didn't police officer what the defense needed. he needed to come across credible. when he asked did you drink before getting behind the wheel? no, i kind of drank. he was storming getting out the answer. unequivocally. megyn: what jury is going to believe. he left the scene of the accident and ran in some woman's house and that's where he claims he started imbibing. what jury is going to believe that? >> he's hoping the ones assembled will. if roy black knows something differently than he is fostering perjury. he would have to say tell the ladies and gentlemen of the jury what you want

perry winkle north and west of town. this includes frederick county, clarke, jefferson, westminster, winchester. this is until 9:00. head farther north around the mason-dixon line toward cokeland and cumberland, you have a -- oakland and cumberland, you have a freeze warning in effect. temperatures will be dropping to much colder conditions till 9:00. the kids in those locations bundle up at the bus stop. otherwise around town mostly sunny skies, a chilly start. temperatures ins 30s and 40s. then we'll start to warm things back up this afternoon. not too warm but it should be a fairly nice spring day. temperatures in the 50s by noon as you're heading out for lunch. by 4:00 in the lower 60s. we'll see variable cloudiness throughout the day today as clouds generally increase by this afternoon. by the evening hours, mostly cloudy conditions. temperatures in the mid-50s by 8:00. so if you've got dinner plans, it should be a fairly pleasant evening. currently it is 36 degrees in manassas. also 36 in winchester. martinsburg around 40. hagerstown you got down to 38 degrees right now. gaithersburg 39 degrees. your satellite and radar picture, high pressure m