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Justice Barton Gaut is a retired justice of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District. He grew up in Hawthorne, California and attended UCLA college and Boalt Hall law school. He was in the Army and worked as a lawyer for the firm Best Best & Krieger. He was a workaholic and achieved a stellar reputation in the community. He was involved in the Bar Association and his church. He commented on the changes in the practice of law over the years, noting that some lawyers were more concerned with getting away with things.