DuBose troubles come home
By Jim Cox Co-Publisher

Suspended Circuit Judge Stuart C. DuBose's problems until last week had been professional in nature. Last week his problems also became personal as his wife, Allison DuBose, filed a divorce petition in Clarke County Circuit Court.

Allison DuBose filed the complaint March 25. Presiding Judge Thomas Baxter issued a restraining order for DuBose to restrain from "intimidating, threatening, hurting" or otherwise harassing his wife, children or his wife's lawyer, Gary Armstrong of Spanish Fort.

Baxter sealed the case file and the recordings of the court proceeding afterwards and it is unclear what alleged actions prompted a restraining order. Judge Baxter recused himself from the case after the hearing and initial order because of his association with DuBose as a circuit judge. A judge will have to be appointed to the case.

Stuart DuBose was to leave the family home in Jackson within 48 hours of being served notice of the order. That was reportedly done Friday with Clarke County deputies and Jackson police officers being seen at the drive leading to the DuBose home.

Monday, Stuart DuBose filed motions to set aside Baxter's order and to dismiss his wife's complaint.

DuBose has been suspended from the bench with pay since Jan. 31 after the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission brought 60 counts of ethical misconduct against DuBose for actions before he became a judge and during the year he has been a judge.

DuBose, responding to the allegations, claimed "diminished capacity" as a defense or reason to each of the charges.

Last week, the Judicial Inquiry Commission asked the Court of the Judiciary, a special court that hears misconduct cases against judges, to order an "expedited response" to interrogatory questions for DuBose.

That was followed by a request for interrogatories for the Judicial Inquiry Commission by DuBose's lawyers.

Monday, March 31, Judge Greg Shaw, the presiding judge of the Court of the Judiciary, set a scheduling conference in his office for April 9 to discuss the motions.

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