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Re: Why Nancy Grace Should be Disbarred
Posted by Lanz on 6/24/05


    I used to like her knowledge and wisdom about the Law in general, but after
    watching her show tonight where she denied a guess to quote a scripture from
    the bible, as if she felt threatened by God, I can't do without her truly

    Without God we are nothing!

    Because the secret of my success as a Lawyer is my trust in HIM

    Lanz

    On 6/24/05, Hardy Parkerosn, Atty. wrote:
    > I am no fan of Nancy Grace's, but I wonder why it took the 11th Circuit
    > fifteen years to get around ruling on the case she was reprimanded in.
    > According to the post I am responding to, the "unethical" act or acts took
    > place in 1990, but the 11th Circuit did not issue its ruling until 1995.
    > That's incredible to make such a judgment fifteen years after the fact.
    >
    > HMP
    >
    >
    > 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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