Alameda County (San Leandro)
By Amy Yarbrough
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN LEANDRO - Growing up, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Tara Desautels was painfully shy.
Then she got hooked on the law.
The Bay Area native got her first taste of a courtroom - albeit it a mock one - when she was chosen to play the prosecutor in her junior high's reenactment of the historic Haymarket Trial, which saw eight anarchist labor leaders convicted, despite a lack of evidence, of mu... (continued)
