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Re: Why Nancy Grace Should be Disbarred
Posted by terry onweller on 3/10/09

    On 6/24/05, DC Attorney wrote:
    > Let me guess - you got those stats from Nancy's own website?
    >
    > Well, I am an attorney, licensed in three states, including GA, and
    Nancy
    > has one claim to fame that I do not share. She has been reprimanded by
    > the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for unethical behavior as an attorney
    by
    > 1) "failing to disclose exculpatory evidence to a criminal defendant";
    > and 2) "playing fast and loose with her ethical duties as a prosecutor";
    > and
    > 3) "failed to fulfill her ethical duties as a prosecutor."
    >
    > She has also been reprimanded by the Supreme Court of Georgia for
    similar
    > antics during two other cases, one of which was reversed.
    >
    > Maybe I will print copies of the opinions and forward them to the State
    > Bar of Georgia for disbarment proceedings.
    >
    > Fancy Nancy should learn that nobody - not even her Peroxidness is above
    > the law. As this opinion shows, there is a big difference between being
    a
    > real attorney and prosecuting someone for a traffic ticket.
    >
    > Anyone who is a booster of Nancy's obviously is not an attorney and is
    > deluded by her self-serving and highly inaccurate press. Real attorneys
    > behave ethically and honestly, not like FancyNancy.
    >
    > DC Attorney
    >
    > http://legalethicsforum.typepad.com/blog/2005/05/laura_i_applema.html
    >
    > I’ve been following the Nancy Grace case with much distress. For those
    > who haven’t been following the incident, Nancy Grace, the host of a
    > epononymously-titled legal show on CNN and CourtTV, was recently
    > chastised by the 11th Circuit as having "played fast and loose" with her
    > ethical duties as a Fulton County, Georgia prosecutor in 1990. See
    > Stephens v. Hall, No. 03-15251 (11th Cir., May 2, 2005).
    >
    >
    > On her Court TV biography page, Grace lists her perfect record of nearly
    > 100 felony convictions at trial and no losses. This record is slightly
    > less impressive, however, when you review the 11th Circuit’s decision,
    > which, while upholding the conviction, criticizes Grace for failing to
    > follow her obligation to disclose information about other potential
    > suspects to defense counsel, as well as knowingly using a detective’s
    > false testimony that there were no other suspects. And this wasn’t the
    > first time Grace was criticized for her unethical behavior as a
    > prosecutor. In 1997, the Georgia Supreme Court called her improper
    > summations and her withholding evidence from the defense "inexcusable."
    > Carr v. State, 267 Ga. 701 (1997). And in 1995, the same court reversed
    > one of Grace’s convictions because she "exceeded the wide latitude of
    > closing argument" by referring to the defendant’s prior convictions,
    > which were not relevant to the case. Bell v. State, 263 Ga. 776 (1994).
    >
    > I don’t think it’s going out on a limb to say that achieving victory for
    > your client, whether complainant or defendant, must be done ethically.
    In
    > Stephens, Grace failed to follow her basic ethical obligations to
    > disclose relevant information to the defense. This was not just a
    mistake
    > on Grace’s part, but a purposeful and egregious tactic done to ensure a
    > conviction.
    >
    >
    > Grace is completely unapologetic about her actions, saying only that the
    > case was one of 100 that she successfully prosecuted. This attitude is
    > completely unacceptable, however. The defendant in this case was denied
    a
    > fair trial due to the trickery and deceit of a state actor, which is bad
    > enough. But to have that state actor now star on her own legal talk show
    > and suffer no consequences? I am hardly the first to suggest this, but
    > let me add my name to those calling for Grace’s resignation from CNN.
    >
    >
    > Any lawyer can make mistakes or ethical violations in the heat of trial,
    > but Grace’s systemic abuse of her power as a prosecutor brings shame on
    > the profession. That we are currently rewarding her with national
    > television exposure is distasteful. If she does not resign on her own
    > accord, then CNN should take action and remove her itself.
    >
    > Laura I Appleman
    >

     
     

 
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