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Re: Why Nancy Grace Should be Disbarred
Posted by Michelle from Madison on 4/23/07

    Nancy Grace was proven wrong again on Monday April 23rd from all
    of Nancy’s assertions that KENNETH GLENN HINSON was guilty of crimes
    including kidnappings, sex crimes, and assault with intent to kill two
    teen girls in an underground bunker located in Darlington, South Carolina
    last year. Remember Nancy’s unfounded rants?

    After Nancy Grace pummeled, ridiculed, slandered, and defamed
    Hinson on multiple shows aired by Nancy Grace/CNN, the court jurors
    acquitted Hinson today of above charges that Nancy Grace implied
    repeatedly Hinson was guilty of. Hinson was facing the possibility of a
    life sentence without parole, and Nancy had conveyed her apparent desire
    that a death sentence against Hinson may be more appropriate for Hinson.

    But, sorry Nancy Grace, one has to found guilty of those crimes
    before those measures can indeed be taken. Nancy, is wrong again. It
    appears that the only crime and miscarriage of justice committed in this
    matter was the coverage of the case by Nancy Grace. It is suspected that
    Nancy Grace will need more direct-counseling, more “damage-control
    measures”, and possible more medications for the stresses Nancy is
    experiencing being proven wrong over and over and nearly every single day
    Nancy Grace broadcasts a show through CNN.

    Get your checkbook ready Nancy, you are certainly going to be
    writing some big checks soon to help cover some of these upcoming lawsuits
    against you. Hinson’s defense attorney, Rick Hoefer, will likely soon sue
    Nancy Grace and CNN of even more civil crimes that Nancy Grace has
    documented against herself.

    The upcoming lawsuits against Nancy Grace, alleging Nancy
    committing crimes against a suicide victim and estate, against all the
    Duke Lacrosse defendants, and against victims like Joran VanderSloot of
    the Natalee Holloway case are just a few upcoming lawsuits that will be
    filed soon against Nancy Grace and CNN according to many defense attorneys
    and blogs.

    It is clear that CNN Management does not even bother to watch any
    of Nancy’s shows. If they did, they would never allow Nancy Grace to ever
    be around any victim of any crime. Nor would they allow her to commit
    more crimes against more victims as Nancy continues to document against
    herself. How CNN can allow this unprofessional misconduct by Nancy Grace
    to continue to occur is beyond all sensible and rational reasoning. To
    make some money-profits over the best interests of victims is not a choice
    most well-educated and caring people would choose.

    www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18273283/

    and

    www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?
    ml_video=85250&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gatewa
    y_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=%
    2F&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true

    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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