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Mar. 16, 2008

Local Justice

Judge Jeffrey Y. Hamilton Jr. works in one-room Kingsburg Courthouse, where he's earned a reputation for his fairness and common sense.

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Fresno County Superior Court (Kingsburg)
By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
This article appears on Page 5.

KINGSBURG - In the southern reaches of Fresno County, just off Highway 99, Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Y. Hamilton Jr. runs a court that seems like something out of a time warp.

The one-room Kingsburg Courthouse used to be a grocery store. The court clerks' offices are out back, in what once was the grocer's home. In the breezeway joining the buildings stands a barbecue, wh... (continued)

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