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Mar. 29, 2022

Ventura Judge Matthew P. Guasco says court is ‘safe, sacred space for justice’

Without lawyers and judges, the Constitution is ‘just a piece of paper,’ says the civil trial judge.

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Ventura Judge Matthew P. Guasco says court is ‘safe, sacred space for justice’

Matthew P. Guasco

Ventura County (Ventura)

Career Highlights: Appointed to the Ventura County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2011; sole practitioner; mediator, arbitrator, Judicate West, Ventura, 2011; counsel, Arnold, Bleuel, LaRochelle, Mathews & Zirbel LLP, Oxnard, 2008-10; counsel, Norman Dowler LLP, Ventura, 2001-08; sole practitioner; mediator, arbitrator, Judicate West, Ventura, 1998-2001; associate, Engle & Bride, Ventura, 1993-98; associate, Lascher & Lascher, Ventura, 1989-93; deputy public defender, Marin County, 1985-89

Law School: Golden Gate University School of Law
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Judge Matthew P. Guasco's desk contains a museum of memories and a treasure trove of conversation pieces.

Light flickers across the beveled surface of a glass gavel, given to him by a commissioner when she retired. "To her, this expressed the beauty and the fragility of justice," he said.

Beside it rests a vivid reminder of that fragility: a replica of a ticket from the Manzanar internment camp of Wor... (continued)

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