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  Daily Journal Staff Writer 

  When you picture a courthouse, Madera County Superior Court might not be what one
  first imagines. After all, it's a repurposed elementary school, originally built in
  1911. 

  No one knows the history better than Judge James E. Oakley, who has been a part of
  the court's history for decades - longer than anyone else who works there, he says.


  His current courtroom, complete with a big wall of wi... (continued)