Best known for his involvement in several high-profile New York City cases in the 1980s, including the Bernhard Goetz, Howard Beach, and Tawana Brawley incidents, Mason has not practiced law since his 1995 disbarment.
Mason graduated from Morehouse College and earned a Master in Business Administration from Indiana University Bloomington.
[1] In 1983 Mason and William Kunstler represented serial killer Lemuel Smith at his trial for the murder of Donna Payant.
[citation needed] Mason was co-counsel for Darrell Cabey, one of the four men shot by Bernhard Goetz in the famous 1984 "subway vigilante" case.
[3] In 1987 Mason, along with Alton H. Maddox and Al Sharpton, were advisors to Tawana Brawley, an African-American teenager who claimed to have been abducted and sexually assaulted by at least three white men, including at least one police officer and assistant district attorney Steven Pagones.