DJ profiles Justice Gomes, and more...

Today's DJ profiles 5th DCA Justice Gene Gomes. "Gomes thinks of himself as a progressive. He disapproves of capital punishment and decried the overcharging of criminal defendants, which he attributed to the proliferation of automated systems where 'one must only press four or five keystrokes and the computer will do the rest.'"



"In a conservative community like Fresno,
Gomes' positions are not the norm. "

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