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William Masterson was a Retired Justice of the California Court of Appeal who grew up in a lower-middle class Irish Catholic ghetto in New York during the Great Depression. He moved to Hollywood, California when he was 12 and attended Blessed Sacrament High School and then Loyola High School. He worked full-time while attending the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated in 1953. He was then drafted into the military and served in Germany. After his service, he went on to become a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.