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29 Jun 2007, 12:02 pm
Interim DA Jim Hardin has assigned assistant district attorney Tracey Cline to prosecute ex-DA Mike Nifong's one remaining case, involving a quadruple homicide.This is the same Tracey Cline who:oversaw the March 23, 2006 non-testimonial order, which even Nifong implied was excessively broad.implemented the "No-Drop" policy, in which the Durham DA's office has adopted a policy of effectively abandoning even the fiction of prosecutorial discretion, but… [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 11:54 am by KC Johnson
She says so.Update, 2.22pm: Cline just resurrected the Mike Nifong line of defense on DNA! [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 12:19 am
Yet I confess that I am amazed that former Mike Nifong ADA Tracey Cline is a frontrunner for the position--endorsed by (of course) the Herald-Sun and several local PACs, despite the heavy shadow that Nifong should cast over her candidacy.As of late, Cline has taken to rewriting history, claiming that she had little or nothing to do with the lacrosse case. [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 10:52 am by KC Johnson
For those who have followed the lacrosse case, by far the most significant item from the 59 pages of e-mails is the following:Although she would have served as second chair to Mike Nifong had the lacrosse case ever made it to trial, Cline has never made a public statement about the evidence in the case. [read post]
26 Apr 2009, 5:01 pm
[Update, Wed. 11.35am:The post below notes how, in her first months as Durham County's "minister of justice," Tracey Cline slashed the salaries of two of the office ADA's most associated with ethics reform in the aftermath of the Mike Nifong era. [read post]
17 Sep 2011, 1:03 pm by KC Johnson
Cline (who, like her predecessor Mike Nifong, boasted of her policy of turning all files, not merely exculpatory ones, over to the defense) claimed that the error was inadvertent, and subsequently defended her decision in court filings. [read post]
4 Dec 2011, 3:58 pm by KC Johnson
”]There were a couple of occasions in the lacrosse case in which Mike Nifong all but baited the State Bar to file prompt ethics charges against him. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 7:46 pm by KC Johnson
In the lacrosse case, Mike Nifong experienced this problem when he discussed why he didn’t turn over all the DNA evidence to the defense. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 2:54 pm by KC Johnson
” Whether She Would Have Tried the Case with Nifong At the start of the discussion, Cline seemed to concede that she would have served as second chair at trial, recalling that “Mike had asked me if the case went to trial if I would help him, because he hadn’t tried a case in a long time. [read post]
3 Mar 2012, 9:01 pm by KC Johnson
But, of course, we don’t live in an ideal world, and there’s little reason to anticipate such a development in Durham.There were clear differences between the paths taken by Mike Nifong and Tracey Cline to their forced removal from office. [read post]
4 Sep 2011, 1:24 pm by KC Johnson
Mike Nifong is, fortunately, disbarred, and can’t harm people anymore. [read post]
16 Oct 2011, 5:48 pm by KC Johnson
Indeed, by the standards of the Durham Committee’s 2011 endorsements for City Council, Tracey Cline is a paragon of reasonableness and justice. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 1:28 pm by KC Johnson
This is the same Judge Morey who appeared as a character witness on behalf of Mike Nifong during his ethics proceedings. [read post]
4 Feb 2013, 6:31 pm by KC Johnson
It's a great day," said Judge Marcia Morey, former character witness for both Mike Nifong and Tracey Cline, "and I think it's a new day for justice in Durham." [read post]
18 Nov 2011, 6:40 am by KC Johnson
" Those comments, by the way, came in an editorial in which the paper admitted that it was wrong to have endorsed Mike Nifong in 2006. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 1:46 am
And Durham County's new "minister of justice," Tracey Cline, e-mails to dispute my characterization of her as indifferent to ethics. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 9:44 pm by KC Johnson
First, a teaser from yesterday’s N&O front page, highlighting an article to appear Sunday (that I’ll blog) on Mike Nifong’s ethically-challenged successor, Tracey Cline. [read post]
18 Dec 2011, 2:35 pm by KC Johnson
"Meanwhile, the N&O is reporting that a Durham attorney, Scott Cooper, has organized a grassroots legal campaign to remove Cline from office—as the State Bar has requested between 800 and 900 pages of files from five of Cline’s cases. [read post]