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  • The state Judicial Standards Commission has determined there is no probable cause to investigate allegations made by former Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline against a Superior Court judge.

    September 18, 2012

  • A disciplinary hearing for former Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline will be postponed until after a state Court of Appeals rules on her dismissal, according to North Carolina State Bar court filings.

    September 6, 2012

  • Former Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline has requested that the North Carolina State Bar postpone its disciplinary hearing against her until an appeal of her removal has been decided.

    August 3, 2012

  • Former Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline has requested that the North Carolina State Bar postpone its disciplinary hearing against her until an appeal of her removal has been decided.

    July 20, 2012

  • A Superior Court judge has ruled that the state won't cover the legal expenses of ousted Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline, who is appealing her removal from office.

    July 10, 2012

  • Five months after being appointed to take the reins in the beleaguered Durham County District Attorney's Office, Leon Stanback says he has focused on rebuilding morale among prosecutors to restore public confidence in the office.

    June 27, 2012

  • The North Carolina State Bar has set aside a week to consider disciplinary action against the former Durham County district attorney ousted after a drawn-out confrontation with a judge last fall.

    June 11, 2012

  • Ousted Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline wants the state to pay her legal expenses during her appeal of a judge's order in March that removed her from office.

    June 8, 2012

  • The North Carolina State Bar filed a complaint on Friday against former Durham District Attorney Tracey Cline, saying she knowingly made false statements about Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson during the pair's drawn out public confrontation last fall.

    May 26, 2012

  • Two weeks after she was forced from office for repeatedly criticizing a judge, former Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline asked Tuesday for a mediator to resolve a dispute with the judge over his email.

    March 13, 2012

  • The Durham County Courthouse operated without a hitch Monday on the first day after District Attorney Tracey Cline was removed from office.

    March 5, 2012

  • Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline filed a notice of appeal Friday after a Superior Court judge ordered her to be removed from office for her inflammatory public criticisms of another judge in recent months.

    March 5, 2012

  • The future of Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline's career rests in a judge's hands following the conclusion Wednesday of a rare inquiry into whether she should be removed from office.

    February 29, 2012

  • Embattled Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline said Monday that she agonized over her decision to accuse a Superior Court judge of corruption last fall.

    February 27, 2012

  • Embattled Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline said Friday that she should have chosen her words more carefully but defended accusations of corruption she has made against a Superior Court judge in recent months.

    February 24, 2012

  • Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline's repeated attacks on a judge have undermined public perception of the court system, two lawyers said Monday in a hearing to decide whether she should be removed from office.

    February 20, 2012

  • A Superior Court judge ruled Friday that a hearing on whether embattled Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline can remain in office will proceed Monday morning as scheduled, despite requests from Cline's attorneys for more time to prepare their defense.

    February 17, 2012

  • Embattled Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline has hired a Pinehurst law firm as she tries to fend off an effort to remove her from office, and the lawyers have asked for a delay in the case.

    February 16, 2012

  • Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline would like to postpone a Monday hearing in a motion to have her removed from office, but she didn't file her request with the clerk of court.

    February 10, 2012

  • Gov. Beverly Perdue on Wednesday named a retired Superior Court judge to oversee the Durham County District Attorney's Office until an effort to remove the top prosecutor from office is resolved.

    February 1, 2012

  • Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline's accusations of bias against Durham County Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson put her own performance under scrutiny in recent months.

    January 28, 2012

  • A Franklin County judge will handle a complaint questioning Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline's fitness for office.

    January 24, 2012

  • A lawyer's decision to challenge Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline's fitness for office puts the issue in the hands of a judge, but some legal experts said Thursday that it might be better handled by the North Carolina State Bar.

    January 19, 2012

  • The latest blow to Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline came in the form of an affidavit filed Tuesday by a fellow lawyer. In eight pages of examples, Kerstin Walker Sutton laid out why she thinks Cline has "brought the office of the Durham County District Attorney and the entire Durham County justice system into disrepute."

    January 19, 2012

  • For the second time in a month, a Superior Court judge has ruled that Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline doesn't have enough evidence to prevent another judge from hearing a case.

    January 15, 2012

  • Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline is putting her job in jeopardy by repeatedly attacking the integrity of Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson, according to lawyers and legal experts.

    January 15, 2012

  • In the latest move in an ongoing feud, Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline filed a motion Monday requesting Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson recuse himself from presiding over the case of Clint Edward Pollard.

    January 9, 2012

  • Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline apologized Wednesday for seeking confidential records in three criminal cases, saying motions she filed for court orders in the cases were a mistake.

    December 14, 2011

  • A Superior Court judge on Monday rejected an attempt by Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline to remove another judge from a high-profile murder appeal.

    December 5, 2011

  • A dispute between Durham's district attorney and a longtime Superior Court judge has prompted the prosecutor to ask that he be removed from one of the city's most high-profile murder cases.

    November 23, 2011

  • Legal experts say the ongoing feud between Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline and Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson will create chaos with the criminal caseload at the Durham County Courthouse.

    November 22, 2011

  • Three days after Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson criticized Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline in his dismissal of a high-profile murder case, Cline fired back, accusing Hudson of corruption and asking that he be barred from hearing criminal cases in the county.

    November 18, 2011

  • In dismissing a murder charge against a Mebane man who carried human remains in his backpack, a Superior Court judge sharply criticized Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline, Durham police and state investigators.

    November 16, 2011