Oct. 22, 2026
Gooding: Seriousness of old crime can't block rehabilitation certificate
Justice Martha K. Gooding, a former senior litigator, has ruled on rehabilitation, speedy trials and trade secrets. The state Supreme Court reversed one decision. She faces voters Nov. 3.
A man who served 27 years for murder, then spent his parole steering teenagers away from crime, was entitled to a certificate of rehabilitation, Justice Martha K. Gooding ruled in 2024. The law looks at his life after prison, she wrote, not the crime that sent him there.
Gooding, who joined the 4th District Court of Appeal's Division 3 in Santa Ana in 2023 after three decades as a litigator and nearly 10 years as an Orange County Superior Court judge, seeks a 12-year retention ...
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