Magna Carta, Perry Mason, and Other Moments in Legal History

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Magna Carta, Perry Mason, and Other Moments in Legal History
      

On June 15, 1215, poor landless King John of England issued the Magna Carta, or "great letter." Among its 63 articles were several guaranteeing freedom from royal oppression, including a primitive writ of habeas corpus and the first expressions of a right to trial by jury. John, reluctant as he was, may have wished that he'd been represented by Perry Mason, the lawyer who never lost a case. Read on...
         

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