CNN News was predictably silent Friday night as the news spread far and wide that their dream girl Nancy Grace must still face a lawsuit claiming she pushed the mother of a missing toddler to suicide through aggressive questioning.
CNN and Grace offered the court the old "protect the children" argument, indicating the wrongful death lawsuit brought by Melinda Duckett's family would "severely chill" journalists' coverage of missing-person cases.
But a Florida federal judge wasn't buying it. Motion to dismiss the suit? Denied.
Duckett was on Grace's show after her son Trenton disappeared from her apartment in August 2006.
Grace grilled the woman, accusing her of giving vague answers and of hiding something.
The 21-year old fatally shot herself before the network aired the tape of the interview, taking vital information regarding her missing son with her to the grave. Duckett family attorney Jay Paul Deratany had this to say about Grace: "If Melinda had any information, Nancy Grace stopped the investigation in its track."
Might as well shuffle the twins off to a full-time nanny, Nancy. You can't hide behind them any longer.
As for the rest of you so-called television journalists--who I prefer to call litigator entertainers--best take a long hard look at what's coming down the legal pike. Your paparazzi of a profession is about to be cleaned up once this babe is found liable.
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Love the Buddha frog... Karma IS a bitch sometimes isn't it Nancy..
Good for Florida on this one..
Yep. What goes around, comes around.
Sometimes it may take awhile, but Karma....it always comes a'calling. :)
The end-result of this lawsuit in inconsequential in the grander-scheme-of-things pertaining to Nancy Grace. Now that three separate Judges have refused to allow CNN/Grace’s request to have the lawsuit dismissed, it shows what Nancy’s role has been, and will likely continue to be, in this pursuit of Justice for the victim. It solidifies Nancy’s track record with having some of her past rulings overturned and her misconduct cited on court records by Judges in the past. Nancy does not want Justice, and only wants to minimize her upcoming expenses due to her and CNN’s own misconduct issues. That is not Justice, and that should be spotlighted in the coverage of this lawsuit. This is an excellent case to highlight exactly the exact-opposite position that Nancy says she stands up for. Media needs to pummel her with questions on accountability from the victim’s perspective and from the family of the victim’s perspective, and from the viewer’s perspective where Nancy decimated the credibility and the role of journalist to assist in ever possible to way to help in getting back a missing child safely. When other media outlets cover this case, they need to ask and mandate that without the interview that both CNN and Nancy Grace was responsible for, without that single lone element, Melinda might likely be alive today and the whereabouts of Trenton known.
Have you noticed the less than enthusiastic media coverage of the judge's ruling?
Yes, I have noticed that too. Even CNN made no mention that I saw of this latest status of the case against this Predator. I understand the lack of coverage at this point because nothing new has really happened yet. But, I suspect other media entities will cover it in more deapth if she is found to be liable for her documented misconduct.
Here's another link that proves Nancy's incompetence and ignorance in herunfounded and irrationn speculative comments. this time, her documented comments will surely come back to haunt her, as well as the Ducket misconduct issues on Nancy's part, is the issue of MARY WINKLER getting custody of her children back today. CNN had the transcripts of Nancy stating that Winkler will never get out of prison. It's true, she actually said that. And Nancy was wrong again on both those issues too. Would be interesting to have a tabulation count of the violations of Law and the errors Nancy makes in her defamatory statments she makes against victims. Here is the link under my name.
Thanks, Michelle.
Check out the comments over at "CNN Muzzles Employees"...interesting stuff.
I can't locate the link to the CNN muzzles employees. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Lose The Dead Weight, CNN. Please fire her. Reliable “legal experts” don’t foam at the mouth when a lack of physical evidence keeps a suspect from being charged with a crime. In comparison to CNN’s legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, Grace’s show offers analysis akin to a torch-wielding leader of a lynch mob. Evidence, due process, and rule of law are moot on Grace’s show since the goal is never to discuss the legal process, but to seek vengeance against all criminals, regardless of their guilt. What makes Grace’s show especially heinous is that her shtick panders to the most ignorant and emotionally charged impulses in her audience. The rage in her voice is palpable as she interviews anyone with gall to defend someone charged with a crime. Indeed, even guests who play the devil’s advocate are treated with derision as if discussion of the simple fact that our legal system provides the assumption of innocence is a sign that they lack her moral clarity. In Nancy Grace’s world, being charged with a crime is a guilty sentence. There are some who might argue that Grace’s program exists to provoke discussion and that my reaction is proof that she “must be doing something right”. Well, if CNN’s goal is to move away from news gathering and analysis and turn their airwaves into a intellectually-stunted spectacle, then mission accomplished. But I’d like to give CNN the benefit of the doubt and not jump to the conclusion that they’d willingly throw away their reputation to a prurient thrill for the short-term gain of some advertiser revenue. Despite my frequent complaints about CNN, I still think they’re the best of the big three cable news networks. So please, CNN, get rid of Nancy Grace. Your affiliation with her cheapens your entire network.
Bravo.
But--I have often wondered if the money made from advertisers who sponsor the Grace hour help to pay for the best parts of CNN..perhaps that's why the network has been so hesitant to part with the old girl?
Another Grace judicial finding regarding what 'might' have happened in regards to Carlee. Notice the placement of the child's picture... sheesh.. Has she gotten her Mother Teresa membership Card yet?
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/08/06/ng.tot.mom.babysitter.wesh
Fortunately, this mom's in jail and Grace can't get to her to push her over the edge and muck up the investigation as she did with Melinda Duckett.
Interestingly enough, it appears America's child protection laws did nothing to keep this child from disappearing....
Here's the video:
Where is Caylee?.
Hindering a police investigation is a crime, and one that Nancy is definately guilty of, which has already resulted in a death of a non-convicted mother of a missing child.
A post from Martel Brinkley:
Where is CAYLEE ANTHONY? Who knows, and frankly, if the mother and the family doesn’t care, well that’s as far as it should go as long as Caylee has not been harmed. Nancy Grace is so obsessed with the fact that Casey has been caught in many lies. But, why should Nancy care, she herself has been caught in even more lies than that. Nancy fails to mention that fact on her show. Maybe an approach should be that CNN should give Nancy a case of her desired Budlights and have Nancy sit down and make a video of a conversation of Nancy listing all the lies she has told, then make a list of all the other lies documented that Nancy committed but she didn’t own up to, and then make a list of the lies by Casey Anthony. The list of lies from Casey will be substantially smaller than the list of lies Nancy has been caught on. Nancy has a much more horrendous track record then Casey. The jealousy Nancy has about Casey exudes from Nancy’s coverage of this case. Nancy should never again be allowed to cover any active police investigation because her unprofessional actions have proven to be unethical, sometimes illegal, and sometimes resulting in death. Casey is a tribute to a good mother, which she has been for years. Nancy, on the other hand, has only been a mother for months and already has been suspected of molesting the twin(s) according to that one site. Tonight, Nancy was obviously drunk or high on her medications again. It was clear when she called a guest “Johnny Cochran” which was not his name. Johnny Cochran has been deceased for quite some time. Perhaps that should be looked into to see if Nancy was a factor in that death too.
Nancy: A “Grandmother of Twins”
BREAKING NEWS: On Nancy’s show tonight, a caller named Bernie called in (allegedly, most calls are made by staffers) and said to Nancy that she ‘too is a grandmother of twins‘. In reality, Nancy is not yet a grandmother, even though her age and her appearance dictates that scenario. That call will likely result in another overnight stay at one of Nancy’s three psych-hospitals that will be mandated from CNN by the completion of the original taping of that show. It largely depends upon the large amounts of medication that Nancy has disclosed she is on, and has to remain on for the rest of her life, all due to the fact she had twins from two different fathers implanted in her many months ago in her attempt to gain sympathy from jurors in some of the many upcoming lawsuits against Nancy by victims of her crimes. Some lawsuits have been filed in state court, and some are pending in federal court as of this date and time. Many more lawsuits against Nancy are expected as reported by several victims Nancy has committed crimes against victims including the victims of the Duke case Nancy criminally smeared the reputation of in an alleged event that never even took place as Nancy said it did. Get your checkbook ready, Nancy, looks like you are certainly going to be needing it soon. And, Nancy, put the bottles down, both of your drugs and of your alcohol, please! You have harmed far too many people already, including yourself and your children.
The actual death-toll of the victims that have lost their life as a direct result of the unprofessional actions of Nancy Grace is unknown as of this date. Due, in-part, to the inability of the dead victims to now make such an adequate and prolific statement of the account of Nancy’s heinous influence of her inaccurate, illicit, and sometimes illegal actions documented by this known Predator-of-victims. Basically, and as simple as possible, Nancy’s goals and actions are always self-serving to her, and have never been, in any stretch of the imagination by any well educated person, to be for the victim of any crime in any capacity. Since Nancy has never been a victim of any crime herself, contrary to her claim, she conveys a clueless-ness of any and all ability to understand anything about any need, any desire, or any understanding of any victim in any situation. Thus resulting in a track record of her inappropriate actions, sometime illicit, sometimes, immoral, and sometimes illegal actions she documents against real victims of crimes, and most notably, sometimes resulting in the loss of life of some of those victims by her idiotic self-promoting and selfish actions who is going under the false-name of Nancy Grace.
I heard our girl called in her own show a couple of nights ago because she didn't like the way the show was going with the substitute host.
Poor Nancy. It must be hard to be home on "vacation".
Pretty typical behavior from those suffering alcoholism and drug addictions like Nancy, she's quite the control freak, she thinks. And, after she called in and blabbered on about absolutely nothing in particular, it proved just how clue-less Nancy is to the facts of the cases; no matter if she is at home ot on CNN property. CNN has had to use Pat Lallama to fill in while Nancy is back in treatment, and Pat is actually doing a much better job at defending the concept of innocent till proven guilty, which Nancy has zero ability to accomplish.
I see that Nancy was banned again from doing her show last night, wonder how many days she has to remain in rehab this time. Well, like Joe B. said so well,"you can put lipstick on a pig and it’s still Nancy Grace."
And here's the pic to prove it!
(Thanks for making me laugh out loud!)
New video of crimes by Nancy Grace and Beth Holloway.
New information about the crimes of Beth Holloway-Twitty in the case of missing Natalee Holloway that Nancy Grace was also deeply involved within. There just remains no known reason why Nancy and Beth continue to lie and to violate the law.
The Unrevealed Timeline (Timelies) showing Beth Twitty lies.
If Casey Anthony tells another 8,936,799.801 more lies and untruths, maybe then she may be getting closer to the number of lies and untruths Nancy Grace has told.
Honestly, I'm hoping Anthony is telling the truth and that kid shows up alive.
The cops in Florida are brutal once embarrassed.
And boy are they here because that little girl can't be found.
There have been reports of people seeing Caylee, and that's always encouraging. But, there are reports of Trenton Duckett being seen also overseas, and it has resulted in nothing yet. Too bad Nancy may have driven that poor mother to suicide, maybe police would have found Trenton by now. But without Nancy's unprofessional conduct, that case may well have been solved. Nancy must have a true and definitive hatred for Florida mothers of missing children. Maybe one of them has also sued Nancy and won tons of money from Nancy and CNN, maybe that's why she hates mothers of missing children so much. And, don;t forget the horrendoundous unprofessional conduct by Nancy in the Duke case and the Virginia Tech cases where victims have suffered tremendous hurt by Nancy in those cases.
We will never forget.
I literally make comment as to how much I hate that woman every time I see her or her name. As a member of the legal field I have most certainly dealt with my fair share of pretentious twits but this woman takes the cake. Nancy Grace is a complete joke and she creates a mockery of CNN and its affiliates. In all honesty I think that a lot of the reason Scott Peterson was convicted was due to her hateful and angry little bitter diatribes and constant ranting tirades. I have to change the channel when I see her show, she and the majority of the people she talks to on her show remind me of flashy National Enquirer reporters. She’s a tool.
Good point, smidgetpink. Her "brand" of "broadcasting" is actually referred to as litigation entertainment. Attorneys "try" their cases on her show before heading to court.
You may be very right about Peterson.
She is also very responsible for giving air time to those who push for sex offender laws in this country, yet....
...Mark Foley walked away from federal charges of the same yesterday.
Think she will rant and rave about him?
Nah.
The guests on the show should not be bombarding Nancy with facts of the Anthony case that Nancy still does not understand or comprehend. It only makes Nancy out to be a silly hore who is resistant of the facts she may not personally agree with or understand. If those guests continue to beat Nancy up so badly night after night, it will only serve to place Nancy back into the hospital for her alcoholism and drug issues that Nancy has said she will have for the rest of her life. How many times do they think they have to kick a dead horse (or a pig with lipstick) before they understand that Nancy is beyond all comprehensible reasoning of any case she so adamantly is proven so incorrect on? Leave Nancy alone and stop making her look so bad, and so drunk! It isn’t fair to Nancy who really is trying to cut down on her drug and alcohol usage. She has allegedly said her goal is to someday have unsupervised visits with those twins she bought, and to hopefully gain the ability to have an overnight stay with them both someday way down the road.
UGLY NANCY, tonight 8/7c on ABC. Visit ABCdotcom for details. Ohh wait, that’s ugly Betty tonight on ABC. Ugly Nancy is on at 8 on CNN.
I saw someone that looks a bit like Nancy Grace sitting on top of a garbage dumpster drinking from a bottle that appeared to be a Jack Daniels brand-log bottle, a big bottle and the contents were almost all gone, so I reported it to the police officer I saw walking on the street nearby. (Nancy has been documented to go “undercover and incognito“). This individual did have on a pink wig with a whole bunch of spit on her jacket and on her face. He stated “looks like Nancy Grace drinking, again?” He further stated that in this area they get 20-30 calls per week of the same allegation. When I asked why don’t they do something about it, he responded that they do not interfere as long as Nancy is not again harming other people or other people’s pets, or if she is not again urinating in the streets again. And, the kids she bought are always with a sitter because Nancy is not allowed around them while high or intoxicated, so she rarely gets to visit with them. Do we count this as a good thing in Nancy’s drug and alcoholism treatment theology? Listen, you do have to consider that at least she did not help to end the life of anyone or of any puppy in this fiasco, not at least so far this month.
OCALA - Several weeks after a federal judge in Ocala denied a motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit brought against television talk show host Nancy Grace and her parent company, CNN, the network has responded with a volley of denials to the allegations, court records show. In a document filed Aug. 19, the defendants deny their actions intentionally inflicted emotional distress on former Lake County resident Melinda Duckett or her surviving parents, Bethann and William Eubank, of Lockport, N.Y. The defendants go on to list several reasons why Grace or the network should not be held responsible for Duckett's suicide, which took place just a day after she was grilled on Grace's show on Sept. 7, 2006.
Such defenses include: that the TV host is protected by the First Amendment, that she acted without malice, that her conduct was privileged, that the Eubanks do not meet "a stringent standard" for an intentional infliction of emotional distress claim and that the plaintiff's claims are barred by actions the defendants believe Duckett brought upon herself.
Denial of the charges was expected, said plaintiff's attorney Kara Skorupa. Skorupa said while she is a firm believer in free speech, "you can't hide behind the First Amendment." If you harm somebody, you can't hide behind an amendment that was never meant to shield you from liability," she said, adding the case is now moving into the discovery phase.
CNN had no comment Friday. Duckett, 21, agreed to be questioned by Grace by telephone regarding the disappearance of her 2-year-old son, Trenton, who she reported missing on Aug. 27, 2006. Her parents say she agreed to do the interview, thinking it would enlist the public's help in finding her son. Instead, they say Grace pummeled her with veiled accusations that she murdered her son. The next day, Duckett shot herself at her grandparents' home in The Villages, leaving behind three suicide notes-one for her adoptive parents, one to her grandparents, and one to the public. The network decided to air the interview anyway, just hours after learning of her death. Next Wednesday marks the two-year anniversary of Trenton's disappearance.
Good post.
By the way, The Villages is a huge conclave of Republican residents. Sarah Palin drew 60,000 of the party faithful to her recent speech held there, simply because it's a GOP stage.
I wonder how many of the residents feel Nancy can wrap herself in the 1st amendment...not many, I bet.
Since that case where Nancy threw her son off the bed, because he was “in the way of her beer”, has there been any other incidents, before that incident or after that incident, where Nancy has harmed either one of those twins she bought?” I did read that she was investigated for sexually assaulting the girl from that molestation allegation by her nanny who is raising the twins. At that time, Nancy was only allowed supervised-visitation with the twins, has that changed due to the newer allegations against Nancy Grace? And, why would she, or anyone, or any parent, especially, purposefully throw a young child off a bed on to it’s head like Nancy said she did???????????????????
With Nancy Grace attempting to sport a new hairstyle mandated by CNN, Nancy fails to mention to viewers that the reason she is required to scale down her soup-bowl head of hair is because the shorter hair may help CNN management to better easily identify when Nancy might try to “hose-her-alcohol” through a small clear tubing that would allow Nancy access to more alcohol while taping her show, especially during the commercial breaks. What some drunks and druggies like Nancy will do to get their “fix”!!!
Nancy Grace arrested over Caylee Anthony kidnapping. FBI raided the offices of the Nancy Grace show yesterday and placed Headline News Cable TV's Nancy Grace in handcuffs. Grace was arrested regarding the kidnapping Caylee Anthony. That same evening Nancy Grace's home was also raided and her twins were taking into protective custody. The Smoking Pistol website had the all the details of the arrest and Grace's mug shot on the site. Smoking Pistol reports that the authorities found a cheap woman's weave made of Cuban human hair with bad highlights and a phony work permit in the name of Zenida Gonzales at the residence of Nancy Grace hidden under mounds of Anne Nicole Smith paraphernalia. The site reports that Nancy Grace was taken kicking and screaming. She was yelling to her assistant to get California bounty hunter Leonard Padilla on the line and have him bail her out as she was led out. Once Grace knew this was a great moment to get more ratings she screamed at her camera to catch all the action so she could talk about the arrest for several months to bored housewives. Casey Anthony's lawyer, Jose Baez, suddenly called for a news conference and demanded his client be released. He said "It appears there was a Zenida Gonzales after all. We just didn't suspect that the mysterious Zenida Gonzales would be Nancy Grace herself". The Smoking Pistol reports that Nancy Grace had kidnapped Caylee Anthony so she could create massive ratings for her own show on Cable TV. Also found at Nancy Grace's residence were copies of fake birth certificates that were not filled out and a rolodex of famous celebrities who recently had babies, including Clay Aiken and Angelina Jolie. Authorities did not offer any details on the whereabouts of Caylee Anthony, because Nancy Grace was still being interrogated. The Smoking Pistol documents that authorities told them that Nancy Grace not only had kidnapped Caylee Anthony but it was also discovered that Grace was part of an elaborate baby selling, drug dealing and murder for hire business on the side besides hosting her show on Cable TV on Headline News. It was also reported that Grace hired people to protest in front of Casey Anthony's parents home, to give the case more sense of drama, but it was reported that Grace was so cheap the protesters had to pay for their gas to get to Casey's parents home. The FBI started to suspect Grace was behind many of the cases that she highlighted on her show when they tailed Drew Peterson, the policeman with the missing young wife, and photographed Peterson handing Grace an envelope stuffed with thousand dollar bills at a Bolingbrook Denny's. That started the whole investigation toward Nancy Grace being the culprit in many of her most famous cases on her show. The Smoking Pistol said that the authorities had found records that showed that Nancy Grace had sold prescription drugs to Howard Stern, the lawyer for Anne Nicole Smith. Grace was also part owner of the stripper service in Durham, North Carolina, that Crystal Gail Mangum worked for when she went to perform for the Duke Lacrosse Team. Grace had been angered that her girls had been stiffed by the young men.
We love you Nancy. Keep showing us pictures of your great grandkids, they are aborable.
Are those the kids you are suspected of molesting?
Clearly, ALL of the evidence in the Casey Anthony case is pointing toward her innocence. Casey is innocent and everyone knows it. Nancy and her pals are just playing “pretend courtroom” like little kids that dress up in Superman costumes. Casey is obviously innocent, it is clear that she DID NOT DO IT, and even a blind person could see how traumatized she has been over this, and how cruel Nancy Grace is to keep accusing her with her LIES. The only LIAR in this fiasco is Nancy Grace. Casey is obviously INNOCENT, and should be freed immediately. Clearly - she did not do it, and anyone can see that she is innocent. The Nancy Grace show is just a huge, giant pack of LIES. Nancy is wrong, yet again. Science will prove it.
A huge search was conducted 11/7 and according to the Orlando Sentinel, it appears no remains have been found.
I'm praying that this little child is alive for so many reasons.
August 25, 2008 vid-clip of Nancy Grace (without all her make-up on, and false eye-lashes that she paints on her face before each show on CNN).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN471zK8WWI
Friday December 5, 2008, the case of Casey Anthony has been predicted by Nancy Grace of CNN through the sentencing phase of the O.J. Simpson armed robbery case. For many months now, Nancy Grace has stated over and over that O.J. Simpson would be sentenced and not be ever allowed out of prison in his lifetime. Which again, Nancy Grace was proven wrong once again. O.J. Simpson will be free some day, up for parole in just around 60 months or so, and this case might be the case to finally get Nancy Grace off the air and behind bars where she belongs. Instead of the life sentence that Nancy Grace deserves for her role ion the deaths of several non-convicted victims, Nancy Grace should hopefully be eligible for release in something like seventeen years, so that she will not be able to negatively impact those two kids she bought as her defense argument in some of her state and federal lawsuits filed against her that she recently lost. We will wait for you O.J. and Casey, sure wouldn’t want to be the judge in either of those cases. Both defendants will surely make millions beginning the day they are back on the streets again, and fairly soon. This new wrong prediction today by Nancy Grace will certainly result in another stay at Nancy’s rehab facility for her drinking and drug problems once again, as it so often results in that way for her when she is so opening humiliated and mocked for her continued errors. Perhaps it would be easier for Nancy to just keep her mouth shut until she learns to only speak the truth. But, that hasn’t happened yet, and look how old this old-fart is as she displays pictures of her on her supervised visits with her great grandkids David and Lucy.
Any more status on the lawsuits against Nanci-pants?
I have to disagree with all those that believe that Nancy Grace has helped this Anthony case. She has not, and may have in-fact have compromised the culpability-factor which will likely result in a non-conviction of the most serious charge(s). After all the time Nancy Grace put into interfering with the Anthony's, how ironic that Nancy and her staff were only a few small steps away from where someone found Caylee. How ironic for sure. Looks like Nancy needed the ratings-boost for money for her alleged alcohol and drug addictions. Looks quite suspicious, and hopefully an investigation is completed and charges for Nancy Grace’s role in interfering with a police investigation is handed down against Nancy Grace and her staff.
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