Deborah Dearborn to Stephanie Carew: "But wouldn't you have to prove that those certain things in the book are true?"
Stephanie: "Then you admit they are!"
This is not how libel (or slander) works. It's backwards. To win a libel case you must prove that the statements are *false* and made with malice, and hold you up to ridicule etc. as summarized by Perry Mason at the beginning of the show. Truth of the statements is a defense to a libel suit.
Stephanie: "Then you admit they are!"
This is not how libel (or slander) works. It's backwards. To win a libel case you must prove that the statements are *false* and made with malice, and hold you up to ridicule etc. as summarized by Perry Mason at the beginning of the show. Truth of the statements is a defense to a libel suit.
John Carew confesses to moving the dead body and says he took Deborah's beach robe to cover the body. Earlier when John confronts Deborah in her beach house she is surprised to see him and it is clear they have been apart from each other before Deborah moved to California. Yet John says he took the beach robe from the deck where Deborah always left it. John would have no knowledge of Deborah's habits as he was never at the beach house other than one time.
The still photo of the phone directory page that includes the listing for Perry's office shows the names are not listed in alphabetical order, as they would be in a real phone directory. The column with Perry's listing goes from MacLeod to Mason but the next name is Masa, which should be before Mason. The bottom of the next column repeats the listings for MacLeod, Macmillan and Madden. This obviously is not a real phone directory.
While Paul is at the airport, he is holding and pretending to read a newspaper. When he folds it over away from himself, viewers can see the headline which reads, "Kiss Slaying Trial Tomorrow." The newspaper does not belong to this episode. Instead, it belongs to a much earlier episode, The Case of the Crimson Kiss (1957). A photo of Perry and the newspaper can be found in the "Kiss" episode's photo gallery.
Perry tells Stephanie that he won't take her case because he's not a specialist in libel cases, yet just four weeks later he takes a former fire chief's case of slander (which is the same thing, only spoken instead of written) in The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist (1964).
Perry may well have told her, he would not take the, because he did not like her. They did not want to deal with her. It was pretty clear that he was not eager for her business.