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Jan. 30, 2020

Where there’s a will

Judge Clifford Blakely says there is always a way to keep troubled families together.

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Alameda County (Hayward)

HAYWARD — When Judge Clifford Blakely Jr. was a defense lawyer in Sacramento, his father worked for the district attorney, but not as a litigator.

“A lot of prosecutors that I knew had him as their process server,” Blakely said.

Before that, Blakely’s father was a globe-trotting member of the U.S. Air Force, which led to his son being born in South Korea.

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