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  Daily Journal Staff Writer 

  CHATSWORTH - Agitating her hands, the first female Cuban-American judge west of Miami
  excitedly describes how her hybrid civil assignment in the Chatsworth Courthouse affords
  her the opportunity hear civil trials half of the year before presiding over the collections
  hub for the other half. 

  "It's unique, it's interesting, it's serendipitous," Graciela L. Freixes said, her
  en... (continued)