Now, it comes out that she plagiarized hundreds of words in her book from the New York Times. What does this woman have to do to get fired? Actually kill a suspect with her bare hands, instead of just making them commit suicide?
Posted by Stephen Silver at September 25, 2006 11:22 AMJust like Nancy lies in her books and on her show, Nancy lies further to defend her documented errors and deceit. Nancy is in “damage-control” mode right now trying to avoid a criminal charge against her in the Duckett case. As it turns out from the suicide note left from Melinda Duckett, she mentioned the frustration she felt from the interview with Nancy Grace where Nancy may have truly caused or influenced Melinda to commit suicide. Melinda went on the show to ask for help to find Trenton, but was made out by Nancy to be an abductor or a killer. Nancy Grace only bashed and accused Melinda and speculated some negative involvement by Melinda. In accordance to the instructions Melinda received from both the police and the FBI, Melinda answered every single question correctly that Nancy asked. Even so, Nancy speculated and implied that Melinda was lying and that she may have killed Trenton. If you only understand basic-psychology, Nancy was wrong in her unprofessional and unethical conduct. According to that note left by Melinda, it appears Nancy may actually have been a contributing factor to Melinda’s suicide. Which, according to the Law, the contributing factors could possibly represent a charge against Nancy for Involuntary Manslaughter or something like that. A civil suit against Nancy will certainly arise out of this huge screw-up by Nancy. Just how many more people have to die before Nancy is removed and punished for her crimes? Melinda is not the first. We will continue to pray for a favorable outcome for Trenton. The public just needs to demand that Nancy stay the heck away from that case before more people are injured or die.
Michelle, while I share your sympathies, as a prosecutor I have to say I'd be extremely surprised if a manslaughter charge against Nancy Grace was viable under any state's law. When someone commits suicide, their own free will and independent agency makes them too much of an intervening cause to sustain somthing like that. A civil suit, OTOH, MAYBE I could see (while I don't claim to know the area nearly so well, and as always, the details of individual state law surely varies considerably), although you'd expect similar arguments.
Posted by: Dave J at September 25, 2006 09:36 PMGood point David J., you are probably right that a Manslaughter conviction may be a long stretch against Nancy for her participation in the end-result death of Melinda Duckett. But, if you remove that interview with Nancy and Melinda from the picture, I believe whole-heartedly, that Melinda might be alive today, and we may be closer to resolving the Trenton disappearance.
If you look at (Nancy Grace’s) actions regarding the DUCKETT case objectively, they are even worse
(Posted by: loerked on Sep 15, 2006 5:31 AM on http://alternet.org/blogs/themix/41629/ )
1) She chose to go ahead and air the piece after she was informed of the woman's suicide. If the interview were not harh enough, Nancy's conscious decision to air it afet she was onformed that the woman had committed suicide is unbelievable. Does she not have supervision at CNN and Court TV?
2) After receiving a veritable barrage of negative comments about her insensativity, she actually had the gall to go back on the air and try to defend her actions by somehow feigning her actions as a public service IE She ws only trying to help find the missing kid
3) She obviously had no facts surrounding the suicide because she asked someone on the air if she had shot herself in a car. No Nancy, she went to her grandmothers house and blew her brains out with a shotgun.
4) If you listen to the interview closely, when Nancy pressed the woman about her wereabouts on the day her on disappeared, the mother said that she had communicated that information already to the police and the FBI. That should have ended the conversation right there.
I dont know if this woman was an innocent victim, or was somehow involved. I do know that she ws a young woman who was obviously going through a lot in her life and was obviously stressed out and deeply troubled. It doesnt take a psychiatrist to come to that conclusion. This morning the Florida newspapers reported that she had been taken to the hospital once before for suicidal tendencies.
Anyone that would sandbag another person in a time of great distress like Nancy did needs to be removed from the airwaves for her insensativity. Or, is CNN trying to compete with the National Enquirer
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The questionable, highly bizarre journalistic standards of CNN's Nancy Grace has resulted in the suicide of Melinda Duckett, 21, a young mother charged with no crime regarding the disappearance of her son Trenton Duckett, age two years.
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Grace's words were bullets.
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Melinda Duckett is dead.
"Nancy Grace and the others, they just bashed her to the end," Duckett's grandfather Bill Eubank said Tuesday. "She wasn't one anyone ever would have thought of to do something like this. She and that baby just loved each other, couldn't get away from each other. She wouldn't hurt a bug." (KTTC, 9/16/2006)
The truth regarding Trenton may never be learned due to Grace's insertion of herself into this case.
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Killer Sentenced To Interview With Nancy Grace
JACKSON, Mich. (CAP) - Family and friends of Ian Shawns sat in silence as Judge Darryl Mazur read the 22-year-old's sentence for killing a gas station attendant in June of 2004. No jail term, no probation, just an interview with CNN's Nancy Grace. The courtroom erupted.
"Oh, my Ian! My baby!" cried mother Edith Shawns as family members tried to console her after the sentence was read. "He needs direction, not death!"
The sentence came as a shock to everyone, including the prosecution, who had asked for Shawns to be sent to prison for 20 years. Many following the highly publicized case expressed concern that Mazur's decision was politically motivated in a state that does not support capital punishment.
"Judge Mazur seems to have found a loophole that allows him to sentence a man to death," said Ave Maria School of Law professor Tom Patrick. "But convicts on death row get numerous appeals. Shawns' interview with Nancy Grace will air long before his appeals are heard. He's a dead man talking."
On June 3, 2004, Ian Shawns walked into the Springport C-Store in Springport, Mich. and demanded money from the attendant. When Hector Sanchez apparently couldn't provide enough money, Shawns shot the illegal immigrant twice in the chest. Shawns' attorney maintains he acted in self-defense.
"Who perpetrated the real crime here?" said defense attorney Dwayne Pope on the steps of the courthouse. "The man who came here illegally and stole a job from an American, or the man who had to resort to crime because an illegal took a job away from him? We will fight this one."
CAP News' calls to Nancy Grace were not returned. However, one of her staffers assured us the newswoman was "chomping at the bit" to be able to sit down with Shawns.
Nancy Grace arrested in the Holloway disappearance. See URL.
Posted by: Michelle from Madison at September 28, 2006 12:51 AMHere is the ULR. Sorry, thought it was going to display in the previous post. http://www.ridiculopathy.com/news_detail.php?id=1589
Is Michelle from Madison the only poster here? If so, you wont get many other posters due to this nut job
Posted by: Little Dog at December 15, 2006 11:23 AMNancy Grace was proven wrong again on Wednesday April 11th after the charges were all dropped against all of the Duke Lacrosse players. Nancy was wrong again on all assertions Nancy has made about this case, and she will be facing more lawsuits against herself for the crimes she committed against the non-convictism victims of this case too. Turns out that Howard Stern of the Anna Nichol case is also going to file another suit against Nancy for her crimes of character-assassinations Nancy did against Stern according to his attorney. Even the attorney of Joran VanderSloot of the Natalee Holloway case has mentioned filing another suit against Nancy as well for the crimes Nancy committed against Joran. Better bring your checkbook Nancy, you are going to have to pay hugely on your continued crimes against non-convicted victims. Perhaps it might be cheaper for Nancy to simply stop victimizing victims.
Posted by: Michelle from Madison at April 11, 2007 03:29 PMNancy 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.
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Posted by: Michelle from Madison at April 23, 2007 10:52 PMThe key point about the Melinda Ducket case is that AFTER Ducket committed suicide her audience APPLAUDED the death, and Nancy issued No Formal Apologies to the general public.
In fact, Nancy continued to broadcast in the same exact fashion in many subsequent cases, wrecklessly throwing out accusation after accusation against people who were later exhonerated.
But the fact that her audience APPLAUDED the death, this proves that this was the desired result of the questioning at least by her audience. In my opinion is PROOF after the fact of an a priori intent.
In my opinion, the fact that she continued with the same methodology of her broadcast after the death demonstrates that she has no regard for the possibility that she may be coercing suicides.
I feel that we have proof after the fact that the actions were deliberate, and that proof rests in the fact that her audience APPLAUDED the death of Ducket.
One thing is clear, her audience enjoyed the death of Ducket and Im sure that they would enjoy another. They gleefully anticipate such suicides with baited breath and busrt into celebration when someone blows their brains out. The only way to serve such an audience is by providing them with the form of entertainment which they crave on a continuing basis, clearly her audience wants to see more deaths.
One thing to remember is that her audience is a MINORITY, just like skinheads and the KKK, they DO NOT represent mainstream America.
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