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Mar. 31, 2011

Richard G. Cline

Judge Richard G. Cline has spent the bulk of his bench career in San Diego County in probate court. Nowadays, he also hears criminal and civil dockets and small claims appeals.

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Richard G. Cline
San Diego County (Vista) Superior Court

By Pat Alston

Daily Journal Staff Writer

VISTA - Probate has always fascinated Judge Richard G. Cline. It tends to illuminate human frailties at their worst: greed, lust, anger, addiction.

"There's all this turmoil," he said.

Cline recently got a taste of it as he tried to sort out competing claims to the estate of musician and record producer Ike Turner, who died of a cocaine overdose in 2007.

The claimants included the la... (continued)

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