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Re: Re:Nancy Grace kicked off from Court-TV.
Posted by Michelle from Madison on 5/12/07


    Nancy Grace forgot to mention on her Thursday May 10th show that she was
    kicked off COURT-TV for the rest of the season and will not return anymore.
    Oops, guess Nancy forgot to mention the facts of things again.

    Instead, Nancy made assertions that Paris Hilton may need a sentence like a
    death sentence for committing a couple of minor driving offenses. Wait a
    minute, Nancy committed crimes far more severe than that of Paris before the
    city of Atlanta threw Nancy out on her butt and took away her ability to
    ever practice Law anymore anywhere in the 50 states of the United States.
    Almost sounds hypocritical, doesn’t it?

    Ohh wells, at least Nancy got booted off the air, at least on that show.
    It’s a start, and perhaps after all the lawsuits that numerous defense
    attorneys are claiming will be slammed against Nancy Grace, maybe then Nancy
    will be totally off the air to the welcomed relief of all the victims both
    still alive and those that Nancy has had a part in their demise.

    Nancy Grace has defamed, slandered, libeled, twisted facts, harassed, and so
    on and so on towards non-convicted victims. Nancy actually may be eligible
    for some incarceration time by the end of all of this, according to some
    attorneys. But, at least the “process” has finally materialized.

    Her downfall truly began earlier this year after Court-TV removed Nancy from
    several days of coverage and limited her involvement in and with Court-TV.
    Plus, CNN has contractually, since last year, mandated that Nancy Grace can
    never be on any CNN broadcast without at least one of her Psychologists,
    Psychiatrists, or other doctors present on the set. Good for them.

    At least they are beginning to recognize the dangers of Nancy’s
    victimizations that have already cost more than one victim their life.
    Finally CNN, go get ‘er. No more victims deserve to be victimized by Nancy
    Grace, and no more people need to lose their life as a direct result of any
    involvement with Nancy Grace.

    http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/05/09/709196-nancy-grace-to-end-show-on-
    court-tv


    On 4/23/07, Michelle from Madison wrote:
    > 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=&37;
    > 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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