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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From the fictional lawyer Perry Mason, based on novels by Erle Stanley Gardner.
