When Andy Griffith passed away in 2012, CNN covered his death off and on the entire day.

You've all seen this type of news coverage before.

An overview of the career, images of the star on their prime,

phone and conversations with other celebrities who were close with the departed.

Larry King is one of the people who called in to talk that day.

He'd had Andy on his various shows numerous times

and he mentioned something in passing that's really interesting.

What Larry said is that a lawyer named Percy Foreman

was the man who inspired the character Matt Locke.

This was a weird thing for anyone to say because most people,

even today, believed that character to be based on a different lawyer named Bobby Lee Cook.

However, in 2015, three years after Larry King said something

that most people would assume was incorrect,

the creator of Matt Locke did confirm that the character was based on Percy Foreman.

A criminal defense attorney from Houston, Texas,

who lost only 53 of the 1500 cases where clients of his face the death penalty

with only one of those losses resulting in an actual execution.

Percy was able to achieve this record by being an incredible lawyer, no denying it.

But also due to the Texas court system's practice of using juries to determine guilt,

as well as sentencing in the case of a guilty verdict.

So instead of one judge who's heard it all before,

determining his client's fate,

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