Nancy Grace took time away from her dancing stint on Dancing With The Stars to rally the mob in condemning an acquitted person. Grace called the acquittal of Amanda Knox a “miscarriage of justice” despite the few of many (including myself) that the case was riddled by mistakes, false statements by the police or prosecutors, and open speculation. Nevertheless, in Grace’s preference for “sentence first — verdict afterwards,” the Italian jury was the outrage by looking at the evidence and standard of proof.
I have long condemned CNN’s hiring of Grace who was a disgrace as a prosecutor and an embarrassment for the entire bar.
While many of us have voiced our suspicions or condemnations of Knox and her boyfriend, we recognized the appellate decision as a victory of justice for rendering a detached and dispassionate verdict — the very antithesis of the snarling signature of Grace on CNN.
Grace’s reaction to such acquittals is quite predictable and formulaic. Grace is the Madam DeFarge of American justice. She refuses to undo her knitting even in the face of reasonable doubt or compelling evidence. Her snarling, retributive style is the draw for a very sad and very angry portion of our population.
For years, some of us have been casting doubts on the Knox case. Ironically, the Knox prosecutors were accused of the same shoddy and speculative work that often characterized Grace’s own career, who was repeatedly accused of unprofessional and abusive conduct as a state prosecutor before being hired by CNN. She often barks about a travesty of justice. Yet, justice appears synonymous with retribution in her lexicon. The result is that, in Grace’s world, justice itself is a “miscarriage of justice.”
This is why the recent clothing malfunction of Grace on Dancing With the Stars was little surprise to those who already view her CNN program as little more than a legal Burlesque show.
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Nancy Fan, You crack me up. I needed a good laugh today. Keep it going. Go ahead and say it. Nancy makes your dick hard.
I used to be a NG fan. I think it was because I thought she took the right stance in placing crime victims first. It had seemed to me that it was all too often that sleazy defense attorneys disingenuously employed rhetorical tricks to subvert the moral justice of having the guilty be found guilty.
I first started to worry about her when I noticed how wedded she seemed to be to the reliability of polygraphs, when I knew that the empirical evidence for their effectiveness is thin, at best: http://www.skepdic.com/polygrap.html
But the real point of turning away came, for me, when a friend sent me a link to a video on why one should never cooperate with the police without an attorney, even when innocent. It was then that I realized that the very same sleazy tactics I had attributed to defense attorneys not only can be, but frequently actually are, employed by the side of the prosecution. (It was during followup searches that I happened upon this blog, by the way).
From then on I started to notice all sorts of things NG does on her program that really just feed one’s sense of moral outrage, and which have no real evidentiary value. For example, last night she complained bitterly that a defendant had gone shopping for expensive ties. I thought, “Well, if it were me and I really was innocent, and my liberty and reputation were on the line, and I had been told that juries are often swayed more than they ideally should be by the defendant’s appearance, I would be out shopping for ties, too.”
My days of watching NG are over. Now I just catch bits of it while my wife watches.
NF, just curious. What is she paying publicists these days? Looks like a pretty easy job if you don’t mind putting your brain in a logic-tight compartment and getting your eternal soul dirty.
Mr. Scribe,
This is probably true. But the way Nancy sees it, the killer should have stayed in Italy until the appeal process is exhausted. She is guilty because Nancy said so.
Junctionshamus,
They were guilty and they know it. Nancy would not have said so it it were not true. I have trouble with your debasing women with such words.
@NancyFan – re: She is guilty because Nancy said so.
Please, have another cup of Kool-Aid. Nancy says it’s delicious…
Ummmm….
Nancy Fan, I hate to bring this up and puncture your balloon, but the SCOTUS has no jurisdiction in Italy. Nor do any US courts of appeal.
The Italians have their own judicial system and after a second trial, she was found not guilty after a jury heard all the evidence and arguments.
Nancy Grace notwithstanding.
@NancyFan – I do work in the legal field as a criminal defense investigator. Was Nancy fair to the Ramseys? the Duke lacrosse team, the family of Melinda Duckett? Maybe I’ll toss you a bone on Casey Anthony, because of all the weirdness.
I’ll stick with “whore” as in, debasing oneself for money. To debase her as a woman, I’d just call her a “c**t”, but I won’t.
If they have had representation and lost, whose problem is that? They can appeal all the way to SCOTUS. If it is shoddy prosecution as you claim the Court of Appeals will take a look at this too. They have had all of the due process that they are entitled.
Amanda Knox is guilty and she knows.
Accepting the conviction of the guilty though shoddy prosecution sets the stage for the conviction of the innocent.
You should try and work in either the legal field or news rooms which have been traditionally male dominated. Men take out of context what is said. It is such a shame you disrespect Nancy Grace and women in general, she is a very nice person.
Nancy Fan sez: “Go Nancy, we believe in you.”
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Who is this “we” of which you speak?
You are disrespecting women. Nancy is a good person that is unfairly being targeted by the liberal news media.
@Blouise – I believe the correct spelling is not “wh-“, but “w-h-o-r-e”.
And yet, this is the same woman who accused the American public for condemning her without trial, for her own “malfunction”.
I just wish they would not drag the poor children of Michael Jackson through the muckraking. The news media is wrong. They have suffered enough. Go Nancy, we believe in you.
There is something exceedingly disturbing about Nancy Grace. She appears to be mad. And I don’t mean angry.
I said this earlier – why not replace our currently malfunctioning justice system (which makes mistakes freeing some guilty and punishing some innocent) with an all Nancy Grace justice system? Since she knows who is guilty she can just rule on every criminal case. Given her hectic current schedule she should have plenty of time for every criminal prosecution in State and Federal court currently and since she is infallible criminals will quake in fear and crime may well disappear.
She is misunderstood. Her impeccable career speaks volumes.
Media wh— … never mind
Nancy Grace’s wardrobe isn’t the only thing about her that malfunctions.
This woman is a wonder all in her own mind….and unfortunately…others minds as well….
I wonder how much of Jean Smarts character on Harry’s Law is based upon Nancy Grace…