Mother of Missing Boy Commits Suicide (after Nancy Grace trashed her

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Mothers-Suicide.html

eptember 13, 2006
Mother of Missing Boy Commits Suicide
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 8:41 p.m. ET

LEESBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV's famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace. Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: ''Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?''

..cut...

Nancy Grace and the others, they just bashed her to the end,'' Duckett's grandfather Bill Eubank said Tuesday. '

..more at link..

[Anakin Skywalker]

1. Bad Bad Nancy! *Wagging Finger*

[bowens43]

2. she is one nasty , ignorant asshole.

I really don't understand how anyone can watch her.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

14. I watched her once for 2 minutes and that was all I could take.

[wagthedogwar]

3. she makes me sick

Nancy Grace is a disgrace to journalism. She typifies all that is wrong with the American media today.

Disgusting bitch, she is truly revolting.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. She should be taken off the air.

Regardless of the fact that the mother seemed suspect, the newsroom is not a court of law, and reporters are not lawyers.

If this woman was guilty as hell, there's no way of knowing what happened to that poor little boy now...

And if she was innocent, and consumed by guilt? What then?

[rodeodance]

6. look here: cnn says "the program would continue covering the case.

.....Duckett's family members disputed any suggestion that she hurt her son. They said that the strain of her son's disappearance pushed her to the brink, and the media sent her over the edge.

''Nancy Grace and the others, they just bashed her to the end,'' Duckett's grandfather Bill Eubank said Tuesday. ''She wasn't one anyone ever would have thought of to do something like this. She and that baby just loved each other, couldn't get away from each other. She wouldn't hurt a bug.''

Janine Iamunno, a spokeswoman for Grace, said in an e-mail that Duckett's death was ''an extremely sad development,'' but that the program would continue covering the case.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. I intend to send my 2 cents to Nancy Grace...

She should be ashamed of herself.

[liberalhistorian]

20. Grace may be an attorney (God help us!)

but she sure doesn't know shit about it. As a paralegal, I'm horribly embarrassed that someone like her is permitted to be a representative of the bar and the legal system. She doesn't know the meaning of the words "innocent until proven guilty", she has no concept of a "fair trial", she has no understanding of the fact that the Constitution provides for the legal defense of those who cannot afford to pay for such defense, etc., etc. She is a hateful ignoramus, a buffoon, a screeching harpy, an embarassing disgrace to the legal profession. She should turn in her law license pronto.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

30. I had no idea...

I thought she was just playing lawyer.

My god...What a frightening thought!

[liberalhistorian]

38. Yes, she was a prosecutor for several years

before being recruited as an anchor for Court TV. I don't doubt that she likely put some innocent people in jail.

Her fiance was murdered during her last year of law school, and she's never gotten over it. No doubt it was a horrible thing for her to endure and she's suffered, and continues to suffer, terribly from it. Such a loss is beyond heartbreaking, no question. But more than twenty years later, she's making ALL arrested people pay for her unresolved anger and bitterness by considering them all guilty the second they're arrested, evidence be damned. She's never been able to move on after her terrible loss. While I feel bad for her for that, she's caused untold damage to the public's perception of the justice system, as well as unbelievable suffering for those caught up in her hatefests, who were not actually guilty after all.

She has little if no understanding of the concept of "innocent until proven guilty", and "fair trial" and that ALL evidence MUST be divulged to the defense. She doesn't even consider prosecutorial misconduct to be a bad thing, since it helps "put the bad guy away." Never mind that the "bad guy" may not even be guilty at all. As a paralegal, I'm truly embarrassed that she's a member of the legal profession. She needs to return to law school for some basics refreshers.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

47. In a courtroom, the woman would have had a defense counsel

to raise objections over such tactics, and a judge to sustain or overrule the objections.

Might as well have tossed the woman into the lions' den.

[Jamastiene]

36. If someone has not been convicted yet, aren't

journalists supposed to use the phrase "alleged" and all that? Or is that another one of the multitudes of rules or laws that just never get followed?

[liberalhistorian]

39. Yes, exactly! But, as I've said in other posts

in this thread, Nancy DisGrace has no concept of that at all. To her, anyone who's arrested is automatically guilty, evidence be damned.

[rodeodance]

5. This obviously was a troubled family and needed help--not the Nancy Grace

kind of 'help'

[dflprincess]

7. The mother killed herself AFTER the interview with Grace, but

BEFORE the interview aired. Grace knew the poor woman had killed herself and aired the interview anyway. She didn't just bash Duckett to the end, she bashed her beyond the end.

Scarborough opened with this story (the only reason I watched was KO did a teaser for this at the end of Countdown) and even Scarborough seemed disgusted with Grace, the banner at the bottom of screen referred to Nancy Disgrace. Maybe this will be the end of that witch.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. This is outrageous!

:grr:

[xultar]

17. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if Namcy pronounces the woman guilty

because she commited suicide.

[madrchsod]

9. .remember jenny jones?

the program was never aired but this is what happened

http://edition.cnn.com/US/9610/07/jones.trial/index.html
CNN - Talk show murder trial begins - Oct. 7, 1996

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2055
Did "Jenny Jones" Commit Murder? by Larry Elder -- Capitalism Magazine


the conviction was overturned in federal court and is now studied in law schools

several years later jenny was history

[Union Thug]

11. Why do people waste their time with this C*? n/t

[rooboy]

12. We had a similar case like this in Australia about 15 years ago...

where a priest was accused of being a pedophile. After a really nasty grilling on a tv current affairs show, the man killed himself. Later it was discovered that the girl making the accusations was mentally ill and the events had never occurred.

The woman's guilt or innocence is irrelevant in all of this - Nancy Grace is vile and should be removed from the air altogether.

[madeline_con]

42. Well, thanks for your endorsement of free speeech. n/t

[951-Riverside]

13. Sorry to hear the mother killed herself but I stick by Nancy on this one

For a woman who is missing her child and on national TV trying to bring attention to the case why would she kill herself over what nancy grace said, I'm sure she was also grilled by police officers in a similar fashion but unlike being in a police interrogation she had a choice not to do the interview, she had a choice to simply walk away but she went ahead and did it. They say an innocent person doesn't run well she ran by killing herself and I just don't see how Nancy Grace is a fault.

If this woman was thinking she should have just admitted to killing her baby and blame it on postpartum depression she would serve little if no time.

I think Nancy made the right call by asking her real questions, women, elderly persons, police officers, firefighters, politicians etc should have immunity or be free from public scrutiny because of who they are.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

15. You forgot to put the sarcasm tag on your post. n/t

[951-Riverside]

24. You know I wasn't being sarcastic

If you disagree with what I've said just tell me, I'm not afraid to express my views on this neither should you.

[blondeatlast]

25. Nancy Grace's face was pure anger and evil.

She wanted to push that woman to the brink, and hallelujah :sarcasm: she succeeded.

[kestrel91316]

28. Your views are nearly incomprehensible due to lack of

effective punctuation.

[liberalhistorian]

32. Are you in the legal profession?

Have you ever had experience with this in the real world, and not just through ridiculously biased pieces of tripe like the Law and Order shows and other TV tripe? I would venture to say the answer would be no. If you were, you'd know that innocent people are falsely accused all the time, that even innocent people run out of fear and panic, that even innocent people kill themselves because the pressure and media frenzy is simply too much, etc., etc.

Nancy Grace is nothing short of a disgrace to the legal profession, and I am embarrassed to have her in the "fold", so to speak. Even most prosecutors aren't as ridiculously biased as she is, and even they don't automatically consider everyone who's arrested to be guilty and to have to prove themselves innocent instead of the system having to do its job and prove the person guilty. She's the type who, even if new exculpatory evidence showing the very strong possibility of innocence of someone about to be executed was produced, would still clamor for the person's execution to show that "justice can and will be done."

[Pachamama]

51. Then that makes your post #13 even more vile than I previously thought

Your insensitive comments, particularly related to postpartum depression make me realize that you wouldn't understand why its so vile....You and Nancy Grace have a lot in common....

[blondeatlast]

22. After that post, I need a shower. Yuck.

[L A Woman]

23. Yup, you are right - the woman either sold or killed her baby

The evidence is mounting. THAT is why she killed herself.

[liberalhistorian]

27. Excuse me-

I am a paralegal and, with all due respect, I must say that your post is bullshit. People do, indeed, still run even if they're innocent, and people do, indeed, kill themselves even if they're innocent. There are many, many, many, many, many, many, many examples of this, particularly in the 24/7 fishbowl media age where it doesn't really matter if you're innocent or not. Once the accusation is out there, it stays out there and that's all people, including employers, creditors, etc., will remember. Your life becomes a living hell whether you're guilty or not.

Grace is a complete disgrace to the legal profession, and should be forced to surrender her law license immediately. Not only does she not have an ounce of class, she also has no understanding at all of the concepts of "innocent until proven guilty", "fair trial", "right to defense", etc., etc. She has always considered anyone arrested to be automatically guilty and has done untold damage to the public's understanding of the criminal justice system, even more so than the blatantly biased (for the prosecution) Law and Order shows.

[L A Woman]

29. but the evidence points to her NOT being innocent at all...

this woman was a blogger. she posted that she hated the fact that she could not find a man because she had a small child. she sold her baby's car seat BEFORE she reported him missing. The woman killed herself because she was about to be found out.

[liberalhistorian]

35. That was NOT Nancy Grace's job

to try and convict her publicly before any charges had even been brought! It was a news interview, not a court of law. Never mind that that's what Nancy DisGrace thinks her job is. And you don't know the truth of everything that's being brought out about the mother. Often, items such as you discuss are found to be distorted, reported out of context, or simply not true at all.

Thank God DisGrace is not practicing law now, and she should never be permitted to step into a courtroom in a professional capacity ever again. In fact, she should be forced to surrender her law license. As a paralegal, I know that people like her are very dangerous in the profession and countless lives are damaged and/or destroyed as a consequence.

[blondeatlast]

40. Exactly. It was poor journalism at best and mercenary at worst. nt

[madeline_con]

44. Nan's no journalist...

She nails people to crosses as soon as the cuffs go on. It's sensationalism and entertainment, NOT journalism.

[Richard Steele]

49. That's the most VILE post I've seen all damn day.

[burythehatchet]

58. I PUKE ON YOU

with projectile chunks

[xultar]

16. Nancy Grace. A disgrace and a fucking evil human. She killed that

woman and I hope she haunts Nancy's hell-bound soul forever.

[deadparrot]

18. I hope that this gets the old hag off the air.

:puke:

How tragic.

[VegasWolf]

19. That is pretty sad when one cares about what a Nancy Grace has to say.

She an Ann Coulter are worthless bitches.

[jseankil]

21. Nancy Grace Likes to Make Rape Jokes

Anyone catch that episode? It's the last one I ever watched of her trash TV.

And was does Nancy care about this little boy, he looks Asian, when did she do a show on anything more than missing white girls?

[L A Woman]

26. you should watch more than one episode

Aside from being a hater of the Bush administration, she is also the only tv host that I am aware of who shows pics of missing children OF COLOR on her show. she makes a point of it, actually. but she's a woman with a mouth. we must hate her.

[jseankil]

48. Exactly, we must hate her because she is a woman with a mouth!

Give me a F'in break. Please don't pull the fucking sex card out on me. I slammed her because she made a joke about rape, do you find that funny? How many days of coverage did she give towards the girl missing in Aruba anyways?

Being a supporter of Democrats does not protect you from criticism.

[madeline_con]

45. Dad's white. n/t

[mwb970]

31. I can't even look at her show. She is awful.

I skip past her show almost as fast as I skip past the emetic Glenn Beck. She is strident and nasty. It doesn't matter if she agrees with us about Bush. She's still a mean, nasty bit of business that has no place in my home.

[madeline_con]

33. You forgot to mention the mom refused a polygraph.

Just MAYBE, Nancy Grace didn't hurl her over the edge. Maybe guilt did.

You seem to think Grace jumped to conclusions. Et tu, Brutus, so to speak.

[liberalhistorian]

37. Grace almost always DOES jump

to conclusions. She believes that because a person is arrested, that he must automatically be guilty, and to hell with "innocent until proven guilty." In her eyes, it's up to the suspect to prove himself innocent instead of it being the system's job to prove the person's guilt. I don't know where she was or what she was doing on the days she should have been learning that in law school, but she sure as hell wasn't in class.

[madeline_con]

41. Sure, that's her M.O. It keeps viewers coming back.

But I doubt it sent Duckett into a tailspin. Why refuse a polygraph when your baby's missing? It's inconceivable to most people.

[liberalhistorian]

43. Maybe because polygraphs are

full of shit and can be easily manipulated? They're not even admissible in a court of law. People think, thanks to biased TV tripe like Law and Order, that they're the end-all and be-all and are infallible and always trustworthy and that people should always take them, etc., etc., when that's bullshit. I would never take a polygraph no matter how innocent I was, being in the legal profession you kinda tend to get really suspicious of them really fast.

[bling bling]

50. I would absolutely refuse to take a polygraph if my child was missing.

I'd be so nervous about it showing the wrong results. I would be freaking out about those scribbly lines going up and down every time I answered a question, scared to death that the stupid machine would sense my nervousness and scribble it out on the paper as such and then I'd look suspicious.

Then, the focus of attention would be turned on me while the real culprits would be getting away.

Nope. No way would I take a polygraph.

[fasttense]

53. Same here, I've played with polygraph machines in psych classes

and I can make them read as lying when I give my real name. It is not that it measures the truth, it measures if you believe what you are saying. When I give my formal name, I know no one calls me by my formal name, so I don't really think of it as my name. If you have some doubt about what has happened, or you blame yourself for not being there when the child was taken, you are going to get some funny readings.

[Random_Australian]

55. Actually, I must say that that is not quite right.....

it is more about stress than whether or not you think you are lying.

Remember the case that got it banned and inadmissable from court? ie. the guy teaching nearly an entire prison full of inmates how to lie as much as you want on them and not get caught.

[blondeatlast]

56. Absolutely right, nor would I. nt

[Random_Australian]

54. So what about refusing a polygraph?

What the hell does that change?

What on earth do you think a polygraph measures? What it tells you?

Don't play coy either - just put, in a sentence or two, what a polygraph is supposed to measure.

[Jamastiene]

34. I would wager that Nancy Grace is celebrating the woman's

suicide. I know how she thinks. She's deranged. I can just see her two transfer truck garages flaring now as she bangs the desk. :crazy:

[Initech]

46. Argh, I hate these fucking talk show idiots.

:argh:

[Ganja Ninja]

52. Nancy Grace is a piece of shit.

She fits right in at CNN.

[Onlooker]

57. Has CNN said anything?

Seems like they should get rid of her. What a cruel woman Nancy Grace is.