Does anyone here watch her? I personally can't stand her. With her everyone is guilty right away before evidence for facts are presented. I was thinking how could she be a prosecutor and I did some reading up on it and I found some very interesting things. It appears she has made a career out of being wrong, and even almost disbarred. No wonder she is on TV.

Look at some of the stuff I found.............

Allegations regarding fiancé's murder

In March 2006 an article in the New York Observer suggested that in her book Objection!, Grace had embellished the story of her college fiancé's 1979 murder and the ensuing trial to make it better support her image. Grace has described the tragedy as the impetus for her career as a prosecutor and victims' rights advocate, and has often publicly referred to the incident. The Observer researched the murder and found several apparent contradictions between the events and Grace's subsequent statements, including the following:

Her fiancé, Keith Griffin, was shot not at random by a stranger, but by a former coworker, Tommy McCoy.

McCoy did not have a prior criminal record and, rather than denying the crime, confessed the night of the murder.

The jury deliberated for a few hours, not days.

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.

Grace told the Observer she had not looked into the case in many years and "tried not to think about it". She said she made her previous statements about the case "with the knowledge I had."

In response to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's claims in a March 2007 Rolling Stone interview where he was quoted as saying, "Anybody who would embellish the story of their own fiancé's murder should spend that hour a day not on television but in a psychiatrist's chair,"

Ok, so a prosecutor who has a history of making false statements....... Then there's.........

Prosecutorial misconduct

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

In 1997, the court was more severe. Although its unanimous decision overturning the murder-arson conviction of businessman W. W. 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 The Georgia Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Fulton County had waited too long to retry him.

Other courts have criticized Grace's conduct even while upholding convictions in her cases. 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 evidence over to his defense team that pointed to other suspects. 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.


Controversial broadcasts

Suicide of interviewee Melinda Duckett

In 2006, 21-year-old Melinda Duckett committed suicide following an interview conducted by Grace concerning the disappearance of Duckett's 2-year-old son.

Grace interviewed Duckett less than two weeks after the child went missing, questioning her for her alleged 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 or not 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," 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 transcript, Duckett replied, "(INAUDIBLE) with all media. It's not just there, just all media. Period." Grace then moved on to a media psychologist who asserted that Duckett was "skirting around the issue."

The next day, before the airing of the show, Duckett shot herself, a death that 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 was not 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, as nearly all parents are in missing-child cases, she was a suspect from the beginning.

In an interview on 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 that, 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 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, asserting a wrongful death claim against CNN and Grace. The attorney for the estate alleges that, even if Duckett did kill her own son, Grace's aggressive questioning so traumatized Duckett that she committed suicide. She also argues that CNN's decision to air the interview after Duckett's suicide traumatized her family.

Duke Lacrosse scandal

Grace took a pro-prosecution position throughout the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case, in which Crystal Gail Mangum, an African-American stripper and North Carolina Central University student, falsely accused three members of Duke University's men's lacrosse team of raping her at a party. Prior to Duke suspending its men's lacrosse team's season, she sarcastically noted on the air, "I'm so glad they didn't miss a lacrosse game over a little thing like gang rape!" and "Why would you go to a cop in an alleged gang rape case, say, and lie and give misleading information?" After the disbarment of District Attorney Mike Nifong, Attorney General Roy Cooper pronounced all three players innocent of the rape charges made by Mangum. On the following broadcast of her show, Grace did not appear and a substitute reporter announced the removal of all charges.

Elizabeth Smart kidnapping

During the Elizabeth 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 cover-up of his alleged crime. Grace continued to accuse Ricci, though he died while in custody.

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 CourtTV confronted Grace seven months later to ask whether she was incorrect in her assertion that Ricci was guilty, and whether or not 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."

In July 2006, Grace interviewed Elizabeth Smart and repeatedly asked her for information about her experience. During the course of the questioning, Smart asked her to stop and stated, "I really am here to support the bill and not to go into what — you know, what happened to me." When Grace persisted, asking Smart what it was like to see out of a burqa her abductors forced her to wear, a visibly upset Smart replied, "I'm really not going to talk about this at this time...to be frankly honest, I really don't appreciate you bringing all this up." Grace replied, "I'm sorry, dear, I thought that you would speak out to other victims, but you know what, I completely understand."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_grace

She is reckless. She need's to realize that it's innocent until proven guilty and you don't railroad someone. It's people like her that give the legal system a bad name. Then badgering a victim of a hanous crime for rating is disgusting and irresponsible.

MEDIA gotta love them...

I can't wait until that b*t*h gets caught doing something wrong. I woudn't watch her "witch hunts" if you paid me. Quite frankly her and Jane Valez Mitchell should be taken off the air, walked outside, and shot.

Jane Valez Mitchell is kinda hott though........

Read the article, Nancy has been caught with prosecutorial misconduct and distorting the truth.

It's not quite heavy enough for one of her style of media smears though.

It's enough for disbarment though.

It's all an act. Nancy gets on tv, rants, and people love to hear her do it.

I obviously don't know her personally. I watched her a few times, kind of like I listened to Limbaugh a few times. They both struck me as fake and overlydramatic and critical about EVERYTHING.

not quite my style,,,,but they appaerntly reach plenty of people who disagree

Yea but she completely railroads people in the media. As soon as there is a person of interest in a case, not even a suspect she goes on the attack and that persons guilty.

Actually big diferences, Rush is political and Nancy Disgrace likes to railroad people.

they are both arrogant, smartazzes,and so full of themselves that they think there is no way either of them could be wrong about anything...it's like the old saying goes "if your not part of the solution, then don't be part of the problem."

Yea but one taints possible juries.

and the other taints voters...

And why is this an issue? If people are willing to believe EVERYTHING that she says, then they are dumbasses. Sometimes she does make sense. Other times, she looks dumb herself. Chris Matthews, O'Reily, Hannity, Blitzer....I could list more names, but people like these guys say some stupid things. And at other times, they make sense. I don't care if Nancy raliroads a person. She is paid to do it. If people want to believe her word for word, then they deserve to be in the IQ club of -20.

She never makes sense.

No, educates voters.

Only a liberal would say that.

thats why it's hard for me to watch news anymore... if it's all a ratings quest, then how much is truth, and how much is just to get ratings? i find it hard to believe anything the mainstream media says anymore, when in the back of my mind saying "it's all about the money"...

their style and presentation are quite similar,, in my opinion

Hence the reason they're on CNN...