It appears that CNN’s Nancy Grace will have to answer for her conduct on her program. CNN and Grace have been sued for the wrongful death of Melinda Duckett, who committed suicide after Grace attacked her on the program — suggesting that she was responsible for her own child’s disappearance. Many in the bar are delighted by the lawsuit against Grace who was repeatedly charged with abuses as a prosecutor and has degraded the profession with her snarling sensationalistic program.
U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges rejected a motion to dismiss the lawsuit this week. Grace attacked Duckett, 21, on a show about the disappearance of her Trenton in August 2006. Grace grilled the woman about not taking a lie detector test and being vague about her whereabouts. Duckett went out and killed herself.
Grace proceeded to proclaim that guilt probably made her do it, not Grace’s virtual guilty conviction levied on national television, click here.
Grace was a disgrace as a prosecutor and, before being given her own show, was repeatedly sanctioned or reprimanded by courts for her abuses in court, click here.
Talk shows are increasingly, and legitimately, cited for negligent conduct, click here. The lawsuit against Grace remains a long shot given causation and foreseeability issues as well as obvious plaintiff’s conduct issues. What is astonishing is that CNN and Courttv continue to air this type of vicious, vigilante entertainment.
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Hello Michellefrommadison.
Paula Barrychuck,
And I support your right to Support Nancy Grace. I would want her representing me if I were in your shoes.
Why I would not support her is she is ill mannered, crass, rude, arrogant, an alcoholic, a drug addicted attorney who has sent people to prison wrongfully and got fired for a stir she intentionally created in court.
Now that she is on your side, what are you going to do when she turns on you with only 15 per cent of the facts?
Just food for fodder.
A complete honor to support a self-admitted child abuser, and a drunk, and a pill-popper? How is that an honor, there Paula Barrychuck?
I CONSIDER THE PRIVLEDGE TO SUPORRT NANCY IN ANY EVENT A COMPLETE
HONOR!
my name is Paula Barrychuck..I live in Texas and watch NANCY FAITHFULLY!
wow my post regarding the local coverage of the “shoot straight” suicides, the misguided swine flu report on WFTV, and the on going Casey Anthony case… is titled “Res ipsa loquitur”
the fact that the local station aired the first suicide footage, just shy of showing bullet impacts, and then to say with a hint of disappointment that FDLE, hasn’t released the latest suicide footage, and that they will update their website asap, if it is released.
Orlando’s murder rate, 1 person every 72 hours is found dead. I think if I spent the day at WDW, didn’t wash my hands between hand shakes, I am more likely to be murdered than contracting the swine flu. the News reported 9k people left Florida, the Crime blotter says 123 left via a coroners van.
Whatever happened to the search for Hayleigh Cummings? All we ever hear about is Casey and Caylee Anthony. Let is know about Hayleigh.
While we are on the FOIA subject, many people are unaware of the actual huge debt—to date—that we are facing and this information is coming out because of FOIA requests, an often time-consuming process, involving constant stonewalling by most of the public servants. If you have money, like Mr. Bloomberg, then you can additionally sue the government if they are not so forthcoming.
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$12.8 Trillion
“Government loans, spending or guarantees to rescue the U.S. financial system total more than $12.8 trillion since the international credit crisis began in August 2007, according to data compiled by Bloomberg as of March 31. The total includes about $2 trillion on the Fed’s balance sheet.
The Freedom of Information Act obliges federal agencies to make government documents available to the press and public. The Bloomberg lawsuit, filed in New York, doesn’t seek money damages.” End Quote}
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aS89AaGjOplw&refer=home
Who knows, maybe someday Nancy might do a show where she is accurate on the facts. Hasn’t happened yet, but odds are it may eventually happen, right? 🙂
cough cough cough crime slut cough cough cough
That still just cracks me up.
Anon,
Most States have Public Record Acts/laws that allow you to access most information, except for attorney/client, private information, and other privileged correspondences. Those are like State FOIA requests, although I have found that they are much easier and less time restraining to access than FOIAs. You sometimes cannot get something from the State because of Federal jurisdictional rules and vice versa; however, if assimilated crime statues or other shared policies are in place then you will have less shell games of the State saying that something is Federal govt. info and they are the keepers of that, and then conversely.
Much of it through the use of the Freedom-of-Information-Act and some secured-sites. The use of the internet on non-secured sites also has a lot of material, but I spend more time on the secured-sites since they are all verifiable.
MfM,
Where do you get the “stuff from” I would like to read it myself. I have disliked this woman and call her that very meekly. She has done more damage than good I am sure.
Stop victimizing victims Nancy Grace, and stop helping to lose the life of non-convicted victims again. You belong in prison for the crimes you have done, and get those twin kids away from your drunkenness and your pill-popping. Maybe you should tell the viewers on every show that you are under state and federal lawsuits again for your role in assisting to end the life of a mother of a missing child, and while you’re at it, mention that those twins do not have the same father and neither twin is biologically related to your husband. Try being truthful for a change.
Exactly mespo727272, great point! 🙂
Mike Appleton:
That’s exactly my complaint with so-called “media lawyers.” Not much lawyering going on but lots of media posturing. It’s a disservice to us all, just like cameras in the courtroom. Our business is too important to be turned into a media spectacle.
hey with as much weed as I have smoked can I get a job on the air too. I am fairly familiar with the air.
Nancy Grace is only the most extreme example of a very disturbing phenomenon, lawyers publicly commenting on their pending cases. There are only two reasons for a lawyer to discuss a pending case in the media: a. self-promotion; and b. jury tampering. Neither motive is honorable. The only appropriate forum for a civil action or a criminal prosecution is a courtroom.
SlipperyOne:
“OH MY GOD. So who the F.U.C.K. did she sleep with to get this gig. Does she own a Cigar Shop and Blew Dress per chance?”
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Michellefrommadison get’s it. Put crazies on the air and other crazies will watch. It’s all very Paddy Chayefsky-ish.
OH MY GOD. So who the F.U.C.K. did she sleep with to get this gig. Does she own a Cigar Shop and Blew Dress per chance?
SlipperlyOne:
“Some of the things that she has said would cause a disbarrment proceeding in the state in which I am in.”
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In her’s too:
“In 1997, the [Supreme Court of Georgia] was more severe. Although its unanimous decision overturning the murder-arson conviction of businessman W. W. Carr in the death of his wife was caused primarily by other issues, the court made note of Grace’s court actions, citing “inappropriate and illegal conduct in the course of the trial.”
* Her opening statement in the case promised the jury evidence of physical abuse that she had to know would never be admissible because that entire aspect of the case had already been excluded by the judge.
* Subpoenas that contained hearing dates Grace knew to be false.
* Failure to disclose a full witness list to the defense in a timely fashion.
* Showing a chart during closing arguments that falsely stated a defense expert had not contradicted the state’s case on a key issue.
* Also, during closing argument, “vouching” for the case by telling the jury she herself believed Carr to be guilty.
* And finally, performing two illegal searches of Carr’s house, including one during which she was accompanied by a CNN camera crew.
While the court said its reversal was not due to these transgressions, since the case had turned primarily on circumstantial evidence, it nevertheless concluded “the conduct of the prosecuting attorney in this case demonstrated her disregard of the notions of due process and fairness, and was inexcusable.”[8] Carr was freed in 2004 when The Georgia Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Fulton County had waited too long to retry him.”
-Wikipedia