Source: Anne Blythe, NEWS & OBSERVER, 10/30/17


Wake County Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens soon will be retired from the bench, and as he looked toward that job change he often talked about “getting his voice back.” On Friday, at the annual meeting of the North Carolina State Bar, Stephens gave a taste of some of the things he might speak out about after Nov. 1 when he no longer is bound by an obligation to remain impartial on thorny issues that might be argued in his courtroom.

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