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(11,307 posts)never arrested the wrong person?
Mason always defended a person that was arrested for murder if it was in self defense.
Ptah
(33,044 posts)?
Harker
(14,056 posts)but subsequent events cleared the client.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Columbos suspect would have already confessed long before the case came to Masons attention.
-Laelth
dem4decades
(11,307 posts)Obviously an innocent loved one.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)They would probably prefer prison to Columbos relentless harassment.
-Laelth
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)(And got his clients off by getting the guilty party to confess in court).
dem4decades
(11,307 posts)set of DVD's. I watch one a day on the treadmill. I have no life.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I've always suspected at least 50% of Columbo's cases would've been thrown out or resulted in not guilty verdicts.
Chainfire
(17,663 posts)He never left a bad guy breathing.....
I recently binge watched the hundred fifteen or so episodes.
brush
(53,925 posts)The Magistrate
(95,258 posts)That, Sir, might be a better question. It always surprised me that Lt. Tragg or Mr. Berger went ahead with the warrant once they had been informed the person they sought to arrest and convict was a client of Mr. Mason's. It neever turned out well for them, and was often downright embarrassing.
I would like to have seen a Columbo where he's called to some nondescript alley past midnight to see there a young gang-banger's corpse with two rounds to the head and not one soul around, a la The Wire, and see how he makes out with that...