{"id":1334,"date":"2009-07-15T20:58:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T03:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2009-07-16T14:08:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T21:08:14","slug":"al-franken-sonia-sotomayor-and-perry-mason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"Al Franken, Sonia Sotomayor, and Perry Mason"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s Senate hearings on the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, Sen. Al Franken sparked a mystery that has consumed Washington and beyond. Both Sotomayor and Franken were fans of the 1960’s version of Law and Order, “The Perry Mason Show.”<\/em> Throughout its run, Mason, a defense attorney, had lost only a single case.<\/p>\n

Well, after extensive and costly research, I can now reveal what that case was:<\/p>\n

The Case of the Deadly Verdict<\/a>
\nJanice Barton is found guilty of the murder of her wealthy relative and sentenced to death. Can Perry find the evidence to clear her of the crime before the pellets in the gas chamber fall?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interestingly, one of the guest stars on the program was an actor named Steve Franken<\/strong>, who may be better known as Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. III from the “The Dobie Gillis Show.”<\/em> Also on Dobie was Bob Denver (later Gilligan) and Sheila Kuehl (presently a<\/s> former California State Senator). So you figure out your own “6 degrees”<\/em> stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In today’s Senate hearings on the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, Sen. Al Franken sparked a mystery that has consumed Washington and beyond. Both Sotomayor and Franken were fans of the 1960’s version of Law and Order, “The Perry Mason Show.” Throughout its run, Mason, a defense attorney, had lost only a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[179,567],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-humor","tag-al-franken","tag-sonia-sotomayor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-lw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1318,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1318","url_meta":{"origin":1334,"position":0},"title":"Al Franken Wins Senate – Fox Nation Throws Tantrum","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/30\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Minnesota Supreme Court finally handed down its ruling today that Al Franken was the winner in last November's senate election. 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