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Nancy Grace, Shrill Harpy

by John Cole|  June 15, 20057:02 pm| 12 Comments

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I see the always vile Nancy Grace is up to her usual bullshit:

“Boy, do I need a shrink,” Grace said on her show, where she said Jackson was found “not guilty, by reason of celebrity.”

She conducted a contentious argument with Paul Rodriguez, foreman of the Jackson jury.

“When you have so many little boys coming in and saying, `this happened to me,’ you got a $20 million settlement to make one kid go away, a $2 million settlement to make another kid go away, you got a grown man sleeping with little boys,” she said. “Hello!!”

Rodriguez attempted a reply, but was cut off after two words.

“How do you explain this guy’s sleeping with a 13-year-old boy 365 nights in their underwear?” she asked.

Rodriguez explained that the jury did not have enough evidence to convict Jackson beyond a reasonable doubt in the case before them.

Grace later pressed Rodriguez for his personal view on what Jackson did with boys in his bed. Rodriguez said he only wanted to talk about the evidence set before the jury.

“I was very stunned to hear a juror refuse to state what he thought Jackson does in bed with all of his line of little boys, say he didn’t want to stick his neck out by telling what he believed,” she said. “I mean, isn’t that the point of the justice system, to do what you believe in, what you think is right, for Pete’s sake?”

Someone wanna take a styab at explaining to this nutjob what the real purpose of the law is and how jury trials really work? You can even toss in big words like ‘jury instructions.’

Justice is now doing what you believe in, not following the all.

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  1. 1.

    Steven

    June 15, 2005 at 7:26 pm

    I used to watch CNN for news. Now I just don’t watch. I’m hopeful it will just go away.

  2. 2.

    Nathan Lanier

    June 15, 2005 at 7:47 pm

    Well, they got rid of Bill Hemmer. That’s a start.

  3. 3.

    Mike S

    June 15, 2005 at 7:55 pm

    I hate that woman with a passion. In a just world she would be unemployed, not raging on a cable channel. The rule of law means nothing to her and the idea of reasonable doubt offends her.

    She has been cited for prosecutorial misconduct 3 times and there will surely be more to follow.

    One case she did something that might be familiar to some. She suborned perjury from a cop, aledgedly.

    The most recent of those admonitions came last week, when a published opinion from the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals concurred with lower court findings that Grace had “played fast and loose” with her ethical duties as a prosecutor in a 1990 triple-murder case. The lower courts had admonished Grace for failing to disclose the existence of other suspects in the case and for knowingly allowing a police detective to testify falsely regarding the matter. The appeals court, however, also concurred that Grace’s misconduct did not affect the outcome of the case.

    Writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, Justice William H. Pryor Jr. wrote that the lower courts were right to uphold the defendant’s conviction “despite the failure of the prosecutor to fulfill her responsibilities.”

  4. 4.

    tim

    June 15, 2005 at 7:57 pm

    With hard work and perseverance on the part of folks like Grace (shudder… she should change her name), the entire nation will eventually be just like Texas, where 41 year old black “Boys” can be beaten and left on fire ant mounds with a slap on the wrist. If you’re a good (white) kid.

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    Harley

    June 15, 2005 at 8:32 pm

    No need to explain. And one hopes that Grace, at some point, will stop pimping the tragic death of her own husband in order to bolster her bona fides. (“I’m a crime victim, myself” she sez. Over and over again.)

  6. 6.

    norbizness

    June 15, 2005 at 8:57 pm

    “Someone wanna take a stab at explaining to this nutjob what the real purpose of the law is and how jury trials really work?”

    Ummm.. fuck no! I value my skin and its not being eaten!

  7. 7.

    ppgaz

    June 15, 2005 at 11:41 pm

    C’mon, troops. Nancy Grace is just another media huckster. She is there for ratings. Who cares what she says or does?

  8. 8.

    Jon H

    June 15, 2005 at 11:46 pm

    I have to say this for Fox News: at least they don’t waste airtime running warmed-over celebrity interviews and biographies, like CNN and MSNBC do.

    Those two networks are pretty much worthless on the weekends, for that reason alone.

  9. 9.

    Compuglobalhypermeganet

    June 16, 2005 at 2:25 am

    Justice is now doing what you believe in, not following the all.

    That’s what 3 decades of judicial activism breeds, I guess. Shameful. CNN should find another flim-flammer, although NG will no doubt spike in popularity after this trial.

  10. 10.

    Rella C

    June 27, 2005 at 2:18 pm

    I watch Nancy Grace everyday and enjoy it. This world of full of reality shows or watching depressing news programs in it great and even entertaining to see what she will do or say each day. Lighten up people.

  11. 11.

    gaby8

    July 7, 2005 at 11:38 pm

    Why does Nancy Grace misrepresent her boy friend death?
    Read This!

    Nancy Grace, 47, commentator for Court TV.
    A

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