Nancy Grace is the Biggest Bitch Ever known to Man

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Nancy Grace
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Nancy Grace (born October 23, 1958) is an American talk show host and former prosecutor. She frequently discusses issues from a victims' rights standpoint. As of 2006, she is the host of Nancy Grace, a self-titled Headline News show, and the host of Court TV's Closing Arguments. She also co-authored the book Objection! -- How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System.

Early life

Grace was born in Macon, Georgia to a working-class family. As a student, Grace was a fan of Shakespearean literature, and intended to become an English professor after graduating from college. Her life changed after the murder of her fianc©, Keith Griffin, when she was 19. The incident motivated her to enroll in law school and eventually to become a felony prosecutor and a supporter of victims' rights.

A law review member and graduate of the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University, Grace received her Master of Laws in constitutional and criminal law from New York University. She has written articles and opinion pieces for legal periodicals, notably the American Bar Association Journal. Grace worked as a clerk for a federal court judge and practiced antitrust and consumer protection law with the Federal Trade Commission. She taught litigation at the Georgia State University College of Law and business law at GSU's School of Business. As of 2006, she is part of Mercer University's board of trustees and adopted a section of the street surrounding the law school.

Mismatched statements regarding fianc©'s murder trial

In March 2006 an article in the New York Observer suggested that Grace had embellished the story of her fianc©'s murder and the ensuing trial to make it better support her image.[3]

Her fianc©, Keith Griffin, was shot not by a random stranger on the street, but by a former coworker.

Tommy McCoy, who was convicted of the killing, did not have a prior criminal record.

Tommy McCoy was younger than Grace said he was.

Rather than constantly denying the crime, McCoy confessed the night of the murder.

The jury deliberated for a few hours, not days, as Grace said.

Prosecutors asked for the death penalty without consulting Grace. Both the defense and the prosecutors believe that the jury chose life imprisonment instead of death penalty because McCoy was mildly retarded in addition to having no prior criminal record.

There was no ongoing string of appeals (McCoy's family did not want any). McCoy has only once filed a habeas petition, which was rejected.

The killing occurred in 1979, not 1980.

Grace told the Observer she had not looked into the case in many years and "(tried) not to think about it". She said she was told initially that McCoy had denied the crime (the officer who took him into custody said he remained silent during his entire trip to jail). She said she made her previous statements about the case "with the knowledge I had." Her mother told the paper she has repeatedly advised her daughter to let it go.

In response to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's claims in a March 2007 Rolling Stone interview where Olbermann was quoted as saying, "Anybody who would embellish the story of their own fianc©'s murder should spend that hour a day not on television but in a psychiatrist's chair. Really.", a 9 April 2007 Delaware-News Journal article reports: "Grace said she hadn't read what he had said. And after hearing it for the first time, she declined to react as one would expect in the hyper-argumentative environment of cable news, which she is a part of. "I did not put myself through law school and fight for all those years for crime victims to waste one minute of my time, my energy and my education in a war of words with Keith Olbermann, whom I've never met or had any disagreement with," she says flatly. "I feel we have X amount of time on Earth, and that when we give into our detractors or spend needless time on silly fights, I think that's abusing the chance we have to do something good."

Prosecutor

Grace worked for nearly a decade in the Atlanta-Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney's office as Special Prosecutor. Her work focused on felony cases involving serial murder, serial rape, serial child molestation and arson.[5] Grace won nearly 100 felony case at trial without any losses,[5], though some convictions were later overturned on appeal.

Grace decided to leave the prosecutors' office after her boss, the District Attorney, decided not to run for reelection after 37 years in the position.

Commentary from state and federal Appellate courts

The Supreme Court of Georgia has commented on Grace twice. First, in a 1994 heroin trafficking case, Bell v. State, the Court said that she "exceeded the wide latitude of closing argument" by drawing comparisons to unrelated murder and rape cases, and declared a mistrial.

In 1997, the court was more severe. Although its decision overturning the murder-arson conviction of businessman Wayne Weldon Carr in the death of his wife was caused primarily by other issues, the court made note of Grace's court actions, citing "inappropriate and illegal conduct in the course of the trial."

Her opening statement in the case promised the jury evidence of physical abuse that she had to know would never be admissible because that entire aspect of the case had already been excluded by the judge.

Subpoenas that contained hearing dates Grace knew to be false.

Failure to disclose a full witness list to the defense in a timely fashion.

Showing a chart during closing arguments that falsely stated a defense expert had not contradicted the state's case on a key issue.

Also, during closing argument, "vouching" for the case by telling the jury she herself believed Carr to be guilty.

And finally, performing two illegal searches of Carr's house, including one during which she was accompanied by a CNN camera crew.

While the court said its reversal was not due to these transgressions, since the case had turned primarily on circumstantial evidence, it nevertheless concluded "the conduct of the prosecuting attorney in this case demonstrated her disregard of the notions of due process and fairness, and was inexcusable. Carr was freed in 2004 when a judge ruled Fulton County had waited too long to retry him.

Courts that have upheld convictions on cases Grace was involved with have been critical of her conduct. In a 2005 opinion, a panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said Grace "played fast and loose" with her ethical duties and failed to "fulfill her responsibilities" as a prosecutor in the 1990 triple murder trial of Herbert Connell Stephens. She failed to turn over evidence that pointed to other suspects to his defense. The court noted that it was "difficult to conclude that Grace did not knowingly" elicit false testimony from a police investigator that there were no other suspects despite strong evidence to the contrary.

Broadcaster

After leaving the Fulton County prosecutors' office, Grace was approached by and accepted an offer from Court TV founder Steven Brill to do a legal commentary show alongside Johnnie Cochran. When Cochran left the show, Grace was moved to a solo trial coverage show, which she has done ever since. As of 2006, she also hosts a regular primetime legal analysis show on CNN Headline News.

The Foundation of American Women in Radio & Television has presented Nancy Grace with two Gracie Awards for her Court TV show.

Public criticism of potential media bias

Grace has received strong criticism for her public comments about ongoing trials such as the Michael Jackson trial, the Scott Peterson trial, the Duke False Rape Accusation Case, the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping, and the John Mark Karr story.

Suicide of interviewee

In 2006, Grace was involved in an incident reported heavily in U.S. and international media when a 21-year-old woman, Melinda Duckett, committed suicide following an interview conducted by Grace concerning the disappearance of Duckett's 2-year-old son.

Duckett reported her son missing to police on August 27 stating that she returned to her son's room after watching television with friends to find his bed empty and a 10-inch slit in his window screen.

Grace interviewed Duckett less than two weeks later, questioning Duckett for her perceived lack of openness regarding her son's disappearance, asking Duckett "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?" Duckett appeared confused and was unable to answer whether she had taken a polygraph test. When Grace asked her "why" she could not account for specific details, Duckett began to reply "Because I was told not...", to which Grace responded "Ms Duckett, you are not telling us for a reason. What is the reason? You refuse to give even the simplest facts of where you were with your son before he went missing. It is day twelve...." According to the CNN transcipt, Duckett replied, "(INAUDIBLE) with all media. It`s not just there, just all media. Period." Grace then moved on to a media psychologist who explained to Grace that Duckett was "skirting around the issue."

The next day before the airing of the show, Duckett shot herself, a death which relatives claim was influenced by media scrutiny, particularly from Grace. Speaking to the The Orlando Sentinel, Duckett's grandfather Bill Eubank said, "Nancy Grace and the others, they just bashed her to the end... She wasn't one anyone ever would have thought of to do something like this." CNN has also been criticized for allowing the show to air in the wake of Duckett's suicide. Police investigating the case had not named Melinda Duckett as a suspect in the case at the time, but after her suicide the police did say that she, as nearly all parents are in missing-child cases, was a suspect from the beginning. Melinda Duckett is now, according to Florida police, the primary suspect in her son's disappearance. Investigators are still piecing together a timeline of where Duckett and her son were within the last 24 hours before he went missing.

In an interview with "Good Morning America," Nancy Grace said in reaction to events that "If anything, I would suggest that guilt made her commit suicide. To suggest that a 15 or 20 minute interview can cause someone to commit suicide is focusing on the wrong thing." She then said while she sympathized with the family, she knew from her own experience as a victim of crime that such people look for somebody else to blame.

While describing it as an "extremely sad development," Janine Iamunno, a spokeswoman for Grace, said that her program would continue to follow the case as they had a "responsibility to bring attention to this case in the hopes of helping find Trenton Duckett." Grace herself however said "I do not feel that our show is to blame for what happened to Melinda Duckett... The truth... is not always nice or polite or easy to go down. Sometimes it's harsh, and it hurts".

On November 21, 2006, thesmokinggun.com exposed pending litigation on behalf of the estate of Melinda Duckett. The complaint asserts a wrongful death claim against CNN and Grace. Senior Legal Analyst Susan Filan wrote an article stating that "Ms. Grace, in the same suit, is both the angel and the devil... Nancy Grace, of course, brought so much publicity to this case that there has been a huge outpouring of support from the community and the nation... But whatever happened in Melinda Duckett™s life prior to her one hour with Nancy Grace, all that happened thereafter is Nancy Grace™s fault, according to the law suit."

The death of Anna Nicole Smith

Anna Nicole Smith coverage began in 2006 when her son, Daniel, died. Grace has covered Anna Nicole's death since February 8, 2007 “ the day she died in the Hard Rock Hotel “ and has taken Howard K. Stern's side[citation needed] in the case involving Anna Nicole's daughter, Dannielynn; Grace has taken the side of Anna Nicole's mother at other times, however.

On February 21, 2007, Grace told her viewers that the judge handling the case was not following any type of rules in the courtroom. Grace physically threw a book, representing a rule book, twice during her hour-long show. She stated that there were no rules used in the courtroom and with that, it was not representing our justice system.

Elizabeth Smart kidnapping

During the Smart case, when suspect Richard Ricci was arrested by police on the basis that he had a criminal record and had worked on the Smarts' home, Grace immediately and repeatedly proclaimed on CourtTV and CNN's Larry King that Ricci "was guilty", although there was little evidence to support this claim. She also suggested publicly that Ricci's girlfriend was involved in the coverup of his alleged crime. Grace continued to accuse Ricci, though he has since died.

It was later revealed that Smart was kidnapped by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, two individuals with whom Richard Ricci had no connection.

When Grace was specifically confronted on CourtTV seven months later as to whether she was 'incorrect' that Richard Ricci "was guilty", and whether she felt bad about it in any way, she stated that Ricci was a known ex-con, a known felon, and brought suspicion on himself "so who could blame anyone for claiming he was the perpetrator". When Larry King asked her about the matter she equated criticism of herself with criticism of the police in the case. She said: "I'm not letting you take the police with me on a guilt trip."[20]

On July 19, 2006, Grace interviewed Smart, who appeared on behalf of a bill requiring sex offenders to register with their state of residence. Despite Smart's objection, Grace pressed Smart with questions about her abduction, relenting only when Smart said, "I really”I really”to be frankly honest, I really don't appreciate you bringing all this up."

The Michael Jackson trial

During the investigation related to the Jackson case, police confiscated an art book from his residence titled The Boy: A Photographic Essay which contained nude photographs. Grace considered the possession of the book to be proof of the guilt of Michael Jackson. When discussing the Jackson case on air she would often be seen taking out the book and talking about the pictures of naked boys in the book. If a guest was defending Jackson, she would use the book as a prop in front of her face, and repeatedly mention that she was too busy looking at the naked photographs in the book found in Jackson's residence to hear what the guest was saying. Grace insisted that there is no difference between a legal art book with nudes and child pornography.

Duke Lacrosse case

A video montage on The Daily Show (12 April 2007) showed Grace repeatedly taking the side of the rape accuser in the 2006 Duke University lacrosse team scandal, and regularly changing her logic regarding the use of DNA data. When talking to Stephen Miller of the Duke Conservative Union, who expressed concern that the students may have been falsely accused, Grace shouted "Oh Good Lord!" and then proceeded to say, "You are saying that...your first problem is two innocent people?" Also in the montage, on June 9, 2006, a guest commented that the filings by the defense showed reasonable doubt. Grace accused them of prematurely taking sides, and then said, "Why don't we all just move to Nazi Germany, where we don't have a justice system and a jury of one's peers?" On 12th April 2007 North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper dismissed all the charges against the three defendants. That night Nancy Grace did not appear on her show; instead, guest host Jane Velez-Mitchell presented. She has not as of May 4, 2007 commented on the dismissal and her public statements regarding this case.

Other work

Nancy Grace's Objection! -- How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice SystemGrace co-authored the book, Objection! -- How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System which was published by Hyperion on June 8, 2005. According to an article first published by the New York Daily News during September 2006, Grace plagiarized 359 words spread across pages 204 and 205 in the book, lifted without indication from a 5 August 2002 article in the New York Times written by Sabra Chartrand. Hyperion, the book's publisher, accepted Grace's claim that the plagiarism was an "inadvertent error" but insisted that Grace send a letter to The Times to promise that the content would be corrected in future printings. Hyperion explained that under contract, Grace must hold the publisher harmless in the event that The Times would file a lawsuit against her. Grace reportedly declined the request.

Grace has also helped staff a hotline at an Atlanta battered women™s center for 10 years.

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Nancy Grace (born October 23, 1958 in Macon, Georgia) is a victims' rights advocate and former prosecutor who is the host of a self-titled CNN Headline News show. She also anchors Court TV's "Closing Arguments" and has co-authored the book Objection! -- How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System.

On the second Michael Jackson trial, speaking on "Larry King Live," CNN, Feb. 21, 2003: "But I'm telling you, this boy, two-thirds of this can be corroborated by other people. So why would he lie about the molestation part? It is in graphic detail. It just seems true... I think Michael Jackson walks. And I think it's a disgrace. He's guilty."

To the jury foreman in the second trial: "Mr. Rodriguez? Can I ask you a question? What do you think a grown man up in his 40s is doing sleeping with one little boy after the next, all by himself, locked up in his bedroom, every night? That doesn't bother you? It bothers me."

"I'm on a search for the truth," she says during a recent visit to the District to promote her new book, "Objection!," in which the former prosecutor calls defense attorneys "dangerous" and compares them to pigs. The way Grace sees it, prosecutors want to do what's right, whereas defense attorneys are unethical and just want to win. She'd never cross over to what she calls the "dark side" because "I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off."

On [defense lawyers]: "They lie, they cheat, they'll say anything. They walk a thin line that I don't even want to get near. Like in the David Westerfield case. They knew the whole time he did it, because he knew where her body was, and they used that as a bargaining chip to improve his situation. But when that didn't work [the police found the body on their own], they proceeded to drag the Van Dams through the mud. It's disgusting. Some people argue that the prosecution just wants to get a conviction. What joy would I get out of sending the wrong person to jail?"

On on-air debates: "When I get into an argument on the air, the man can always yell louder, if a man fights like hell, he's being forceful; if I raise my voice and fight like hell, I'm being a shrew and a bitch."

On the death penalty:(the argument that it costs more to appeal death row convictions than to imprison someone for life.) "Ken Starr gave me the perfect comeback on that," she scoffs. "How many millions of dollars were we willing to spend to show that the President had oral sex?"

At the end of each show, Grace usually says goodbye to her viewers with some form of the following message: "I want to thank all of my guests for being with us tonight. But my biggest thank you is to you, for being with us, and inviting us into your homes. Coming up, headlines from all around the world. I'm Nancy Grace, signing off for tonight. Hope to see you right here tomorrow night, eight o'clock sharp Eastern, and until then, goodnight, friend."

"Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day? Ms Duckett, you are not telling us for a reason. What is the reason? You refuse to give even the simplest facts of where you were with your son before he went missing. It is day 12."

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Nancy Grace to end show on Court TV

ATLANTA - Nancy Grace is ending her justice-themed interview and debate show, "Nancy Grace: Closing Arguments," on Court TV after 10 years with the network.

"Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection," she said Wednesday in a statement.

Grace said she is leaving Court TV to focus on her legal analysis program, "Nancy Grace," on CNN Headline News and on her charitable endeavors.

Before joining Court TV, she was a special prosecutor in the Fulton County District Attorney's Office, where she worked felony cases involving serial murder, rape, child molestation and arson.

Over the years, Grace has become known for sparking controversy on the show, including high-profile cases such as the Duke University rape scandal, the search for Natalee Holloway and the Scott Peterson trial.

Last year, she interviewed Melinda Duckett on her Headline News show about the disappearance of Duckett's 2-year-old son. Duckett shot herself to death before the pre-taped interview aired.

Now I hope the Bitch get's canned from CNN

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LOL, BM this thread is so hilarious...Love the end of the last post, lol...

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Thanks for the props, I was starting to think I was the only one that feels this way about the bitch. I think that the Duke case(her comments) was the final straw with CourtTV and the higher ups.

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I missed the Daily Show the noight they did the Duke Lacrosse case with the nancy Grace clips.
I so wanted to see that.

It's here and people like here that are ruining the justice system.

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How to read Nancy Grace- follow the link

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More Nancy Grace Garbage- follow the link

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I Love this thread

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Nancy Grace gets punked (possible fake) but it's still funny-follow the link

The truth must get out, this is the biggest Bitch known to man and is the biggest threat to men who reside outside of prison. Every man is guilty in her eyes...keep an eye on your six.