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-->'''Daffy:''' Are we to assume that there is some significance in your attitude that (a) you would not want your master to regain his good health, and (b) that you should endeavor to remove from the premises the only person capable of restoring said health to said master?

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* Daffy Duck does this without a courtoom scene in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Daffy Dilly." He's trying to get in a mansion so he can make an ill tycoon laugh but the butler keeps stopping him. Daffy finally goes Perry Mason on him, intimidating the butler:
-->'''Daffy:''' Are we to assume that there is some significance in your attitude that (a) you would not want your master to regain his good health, and (b) that you should endeavor to remove from the premises the only person capable of restoring said health to said master?
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* In the 2022 lawsuit filed against Alex Jones by families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre over his long insistance that the massacre wasn't real and encouraging listeners of his show to harass and attack them, Jones was finally called up to the stand for cross examination during deliberations over damages. The plaintiffs' attorney then revealed that Jones's lawyer had accidentally forwarded him the entire records of Alex Jones's cellphone from the last two years, which included Jones admitting that he knew the massacre was real. Jones admitted to committing perjury and news reports covering the trial called it "a real Perry Mason moment."

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* In the 2022 lawsuit filed against Alex Jones by families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre over his long insistance that the massacre wasn't real and encouraging listeners of his show to harass and attack them, Jones was finally called up to the stand for cross examination during deliberations over damages. The plaintiffs' attorney then revealed that Jones's lawyer had accidentally forwarded him the entire records of Alex Jones's cellphone from the last two years, which included Jones admitting that he knew the massacre was real. Jones admitted to committing perjury and news reports covering the trial called it "a real Perry Mason moment."moment", right on the stand.
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* During Gertrude Baniszewski's trial for abusing and killing Sylvia Likens in 1965, her young daughter Marie was called to testify in her defence that she had never seen her mother hurt Sylvia. However, under the relentless questioning of the prosecutor, 11-year-old Marie soon broke down and admitted that she had indeed seen her mother beating Sylvia and ordering her teenage accomplices to torture her. Gertrude was found guilty.
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* In ''Literature/EricOrLittleByLittle'', TheBully Barker [[FrameUp frames Eric for writing a master an insulting note]]. Instead of flogging Eric right away, the headmaster Dr Rowlands decides to have a trial. Russell, the boy defending Eric, uncovers several pieces of evidence that Eric was framed. When Owen testifies that he found the paper Barker wrote on while learning to copy Eric's handwriting, Barker breaks down and confesses. Barker is forced to run a gauntlet of dozens of boys beating him with knotted handkerchiefs, then is caned and expelled.
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* ''Literature/JudgeDee'': Judge Dee sometimes does this, occasionally even using torture, and he's the ''judge''. {{Justified}} in that convictions in his setting (AD 600s China) ''had'' to be obtained through confessions. Some villains would hold out even when incontrovertible proof was being displayed.

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* ''Literature/JudgeDee'': Judge Dee sometimes does this, occasionally even using torture, and he's the ''judge''. {{Justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} in that convictions in his setting (AD 600s China) ''had'' to be obtained through confessions. Some villains would hold out even when incontrovertible proof was being displayed.
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* Discussed and played with in the ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' episode "Chicanery." Jimmy's brother Chuck, who is testifying against Jimmy at his bar hearing, accuses Jimmy of trying to rile him up so he would break down and go on a MotiveRant "like an episode of ''Perry Mason''." However, this ends up being almost exactly what happens--and Chuck's rant severely discredits the prosecution's testimony, causing Jimmy to only get a 1-year suspension instead of total disbarment.
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Named for the iconic 1957-1966 LawProcedural TV series ''Franchise/PerryMason'', in which Perry's client was always innocent, and Perry always won the day by getting the guilty party to confess on the stand during cross-examination. A sub-trope of CourtroomAntic. Similar to TheCSIEffect, where juries demand forensic evidence no matter how hard to find or malleable it may be.

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Named for the iconic 1957-1966 LawProcedural TV series ''Franchise/PerryMason'', in which Perry's client was always innocent, and Perry always won the day by getting the guilty party to confess on the stand during cross-examination. A sub-trope of CourtroomAntic.UnconventionalCourtroomTactics. Similar to TheCSIEffect, where juries demand forensic evidence no matter how hard to find or malleable it may be.

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