Ventura County (Ventura)
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)