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Re: Why Nancy Grace Should be Disbarred
Posted by No Name Necessary on 6/25/05


    Dear Bible Cry Baby:

    Grow up! Nancy Grace has the right to tell someone to SHUT UP if she doesn't
    want to hear a bible verse. She knows her "viewers and other guests" are
    watching her show - for the legality of the issues and not for religious
    discipline from the bible on the issues.

    You sound like a "young lawyer" who needs to understand that - not everyone
    believes in an ALMIGHT GOD and YOU need to LEARN TO RESPECT - others
    beliefs and rights. I'm NOT saying believe the way they do, but RESPECT, and as
    a lawyer YOU know under the United States Constitution - people have the right
    to believe in God/Religion or NOT.


    On 6/24/05, Lanz wrote:
    >
    > 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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