No doubt most of us have our preferences when it comes to media personalities. And of course, I'm never one to stir the pot (ha ha, he he),but,
I despise Nancy Grace's show and rarely watch it. To me, she's "tragedy vulture" numero uno. I think this clip of her "interviewing" Elizabeth Smart (the Utah teenager abducted from her home and later found with a nutcase) shows that perfectly. Smart had appeared on the show to promote a new sex offender bill she is supporting, but why should Grace talk substance when she can put victims through their tragedy again...and again...
I was a huge Nancy Grace fan, but a little while back(probably a year) she was talking about something (I can't even remember what) and it upset me so much that I have refused to watch her every since. During the Scott Peterson trial(killed his 8 month pregnant wife around Christmas) I watched her faithfully because I loved the way she thought(it was the same way I did), but whatever she was talking about just made me so angry I refuse to turn her on at all!! When she makes up her mind that someone is guilty of something she doesn't hold back and I guess that is why I liked her, but she does need to remember that EVERYONE (no matter her opinion) is innocent until PROVEN guilty.
Some people wait a lifetime....
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way to go Elizabeth!!! i too used to be a fan of Nancy Grace especially during the Scott Peterson case b/c we shared the same opinion. but later on dave pointed out that she seems to be a "man-hater", always convicting any man accused of anything and i noticed he was right! i don't watch her very often unless she is talking about something i am really interested in. she can be so rude to her guests! thanks for the clip ron, i had not seen it!
Mrs. Nancy was just a vulture in that piece... how trashy. Elizabeth continued and continued to say "i'm not here to talk about what was in my past" ... but Mrs. Nancy just IGNORED her! she needs to get that sand out of her vagina....
Life is something that you can't control.
When you try to hold on to it, it makes you let go!
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Biography
As a student, Grace was a devotee of Shakespearean literature, and intended to become an English professor after graduating from college. However, the course of her life was changed by the violent murder of her fiancé. The incident motivated her to enroll in law school and set her on the path to becoming a felony prosecutor, and an outspoken advocate of victims' rights.
Grace served for nearly a decade in the Atlanta-Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney's office as Special Prosecutor of major felony cases involving serial murder, serial rape, serial child molestation and arson. She won nearly a hundred felony convictions at trial with no losses, although some convictions were later overturned by higher courts.
A Law Review graduate of the Walter F. George School of Law of Mercer University, Grace received her LLM in constitutional and criminal law from New York University. She has written articles for the American Bar Association Journal, various law reviews, and op-eds. Previously, Grace clerked with a federal court judge and practiced antitrust and consumer protection law with the Federal Trade Commission. She taught litigation at the Georgia State University School of Law and business law at GSU's School of Business. She currently serves on Mercer University's board of trustees and recently adopted a section of the street surrounding the law school.
Controversy over fiance's murder trial
In March 2006 an article in the New York Observer suggested that Grace had embellished the story of her fiancé's murder and the ensuing trial to make it better support her image as an avenger of the judicial system's wrongs.
Her fiancé, Keith Griffin, was shot not by a random stranger on the street, but by an embittered former coworker.
Tommy McCoy, who was convicted of the killing, was five years younger than Grace claimed, and did not have a prior criminal record.
Rather than constantly denying the crime, he confessed the night of the murder.
The jury deliberated for a few hours, not days as Grace claims.
Prosecutors asked for the death penalty on their own, 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 his previously clean 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, and Griffin was two years younger than Grace has claimed.
Neither the prosecutor nor McCoy's lawyer recall her doing anything significant at the trial beyond identifying Griffin's wallet when it was introduced into evidence.
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.
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Yeah, it really bothered me that she did that to Elizabeth. In general she is pretty conservative and I like that, but it really made me mad when I saw the interview. I was actually in Salt Lake City when Elizabeth was taken. It broke my heart. There were people everywhere trying to find her. It was something that I as a human being would like to forget. Nancy Grace needs to back off!
I think she is vile, and I try to avoid her show. As a TV personality, I can always just ignore her, but the most troubling thing about her is her string of ethical violations as a Georgia prosecutor, including lying to opposing counsel, and the biggest no-no, submitting false sworn testimony to a court. That is one of the gravest violation of legal ethics, and for me it taints everthing else she does.
I am bumping this thread due to the recent controversy about Nancy Grace and the Trenton/Melinda Duckett situation. I readily admit that I usually find Nancy Grace distasteful. I usually don't watch it. However, I was flipping through the channels the night Nancy interviewed little Trenton's mother and father. Trenton's mother Melinda killed herself the next day. There is still no idea where the baby is. Nancy Grace has taken a lot of heat over this interview. Normally, I would agree. But I watched every minute of that broadcast, and I don't think Nancy was too hard on the mother. Her answers were evasive, she refused to answer the simplest questions. It was Melinda's total refusal to admit anything that was so frustrating and aroused suspicion. She did not seem like a mother desperate to find her son. If one of my kids were missing, I would do absolutely everything possible to find them. Trenton's father had no problem answering questions. By the end of the show I was absolutely convinced that Melinda Duckett was involved in some way in her baby's disappearance. Nancy Grace was no harder on her than I would have been if I had conducted the interview.
The police have now lost their ONLY lead toward finding this toddler because that shrill beast of a woman (if I dare say she is a woman) berated the unstable mother to the point of suicide. And then, like the vulture only interested in her own money-making-power she is, she AIRED THE SHOW after the girl COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Sick, twisted, monster of a woman. I hope she rots from the inside out before she drives another person to suicide.
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But let me tell you how I REALLY feel!!!
Oh how we danced and we swallowed the nights for it was all ripe for dreaming
Oh how we danced away all of the lights we've always been out of our minds
Demopolite, did you see the interview? Truly, I don't like her, but didn't the mother seem so evasive that she was incriminating herself? The whole thing is very disturbing.
