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Sep. 30, 2008

The Justice Buff

With his dad working as a guard at the Long Beach Courthouse, Gary Ferrari took an early liking to the legal profession but insisted on spending his summers clerking for the railroad.

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The Justice Buff
Los Angeles County (Long Beach) Superior Court
By Evan George

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Long before Gary Ferrari made the Superior Court bench, his hometown of Long Beach was a sleepy port whose denizens were entitled to full-scale jury trials for something as routine as a speeding ticket.

Back then, in the early '60s, Ferrari engineered model train sets in his bedroom and spent afternoons at the courthouse on Ocean Avenue where his father stood guard as a county marshal. "I always wanted t... (continued)

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