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- noun A moment during legal or judicial proceedings when evidence or other information, usually unknown to most present, is introduced into the record in a manner seen as determinative of the outcome of the proceedings regardless of whatever else occurs.
Etymologies
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From the U.S. television series Perry Mason, based on novels by Erle Stanley Gardner
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