robert morgenthaler at the beginning, how did that come about? did you always want to be a prosecutor or did you have an inspiration to want to work for him? jutice sotomayor: perry mason -- going back to the tv show that was my motivation, my initial motivation for becoming a lawyer, in one episode, the long suffering prosecutor who always lost to perry mason met him at a restaurant after perry mason had proven his client innocent again -- or not guilty. at any rate, perry says to him, i know how hard you worked on this case, it must feel a little frustrating to have lost to me. and he responded, yes, i work hard on the case, but as a prosecutor, i'm always seeking justice. and justice means, for me, that the persons who are guilty are proven guilty and the people who are not guilty are let free. you proved the defendant was not guilty, so justice was done. and i remembered those words when i went to law school. i was not planning then to become a prosecutor. i was following the path of most of my law school friends who were thinking of joining a law firm after law school. but in my third year, on a chance meeting with the then legendary robert morgenthaler at y