Veteran San Diego defense lawyer collapses during court argument, later dies [Breaking]
Longtime San Diego criminal defense attorney Stephen Cline collapsed in a downtown San Diego courtroom Tuesday while arguing a pre-trial motion in a 27-year-old homicide case, and later died after being taken to a hospital.
Cline was transported to Sharp Mercy Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to the Sheriff’s Department. “He was one of those no-nonsense guys, very zealous about defending his clients,” said San Diego Superior Court Presiding Judge Michael T. Smyth. He first encountered Cline in the early 1990s when Smyth worked a prosecutor in the San Diego City Attorney’s Office and Cline was in this first stint as a deputy public defender.
A fixture in the courthouse, Cline handled several notable cases through the years. He defended one of two men who confronted then Metropolitan Transit System Chairman Harry Mathis inside the garage of his University City home. Mathis was pistol-whipped and then forced inside a bathroom with his wife and a neighbor while the thieves ransacked the home and set part of it alight. Cline’s clientHe also was a part of several cases with unusal outcomes that became part of courthouse lore.
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