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Oct. 13, 2008

Playing Fair

As a prosecutor, and now as a judge, Gilbert G. Ochoa makes sure bias never enters his decisions.

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Playing Fair

Gilbert G. Ochoa

San Bernardion County Superior Court

Career Highlights: Joined JAMS, November 2026; San Bernardino County Superior Court, retired September 2026

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By Jason W. Armstrong
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN BERNARDINO - It was a chain of uncanny coincidences over 20 years that Judge Gilbert G. Ochoa said helped him understand the importance of keeping his rulings bias-free.

The sequence started when Ochoa was an 18-year-old lifeguard at "teen night" at the Santa Fe Springs city pool. One night, Ochoa said, he refused to let an older man and the man's girlfriend use the center, explaining it... (continued)

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