Kings County
Reading mail from prison inmates is part of the job, and Kings County Superior Court Judge Donna L. Tarter takes it seriously. So when a three-striker sent her a habeas corpus writ petition in 2017 pointing out that his roof leaked, she looked into the matter.
Tarter is the presiding judge of a seven-jurist bench in a county with state prisons in Corcoran and Avenal. Handed a robe by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009, sh... (continued)