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    Today's true-life plot lines make TV's scripted courtroom shows look tame

    by Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times Aug 24, 2018 3 minutes

    Perry Mason and Matlock were once America's most recognizable "lawyers" thanks to the dramatic crimes and cases they brought into American living rooms each week.

    Today it's hard to imagine any scripted series that's able to compete with the courthouse drama and cast of characters that reality has handed us in the Trump era.

    On Tuesday, loosely linked plot lines converged into one bad narrative for President Trump when his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to eight counts of tax and bank fraud and campaign finance violations and said he'd paid out hush

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