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  Daily Journal Staff Writer 

  FRESNO - When the court staff takes a break, Commissioner Heather Mardel Jones stays
  on the bench.  

  "I like to see who's coming in, what can be taken right away, what 'in custodies'
  are there," she said during a rare break in her chambers away from the buzz of her
  misdemeanor courtroom in the basement of the Fresno County Central Courthouse. 

  Snapping her fingers to simulate sp... (continued)