Well what do you know:
Prosecutorial Misconduct by Nancy Grace?: Nancy Grace is a fomer prosecutor from the Atlanta Fulton County District Attorney’s Office who is now a legal commentator for Court TV and CNN. Given that Grace comments so frequently on matters of criminal law, I wonder if she’ll comment on the Eleventh Circuit’s opinion today in Stephens v. Hall. In an opinion by Judge Pryor, the Eleventh Circuit considered the remedy for a case in which a certain Fulton County District Attorney’s Office prosecutor was found by the court to have “played fast and loose with her ethical duties” under the Constitution. The name of the prosecutor? Nancy Grace.
This woman is a disgrace. Essentially, she suppressed evidence, including the fact that arrest warrants were issued for suspects other than Stephens for the same crime yet Grace stated under oath that no charges were pending, and she put witnesses up that testified falsely.
Atta’ girl.
Anderson
Obviously, she should be Bush’s next nominee to the UN ambassadorship, after Bolton decides to spend more time with his family.
J. Caesar
Interesting. I guess Nancy Grace must have displayed some liberal bias on her op-ed show, so now we’re going to move to discredit her.
Come on… Where I come from, they call that being “Tough on Crime”… The guy killed a man in cold blood, you’re telling me we ought to let him go free because of a technicality? Good for Judge Pryor that he affirmedt he decision.
John Cole
Cripes. The point is that there was ample evidence to convict the man, but Nancy Grace was not satisfied and still had to grease the wheels by engaging in unethical behavior, The same sort of behavior and attitude that would lead her to start leveling accusations towards Jen Wilbank’s fiancee for no reason whatseover.
Anderson
J. Caesar, when you’re charged with a crime and the prosecutor hides info that could be beneficial to you, I hope you’ll be so philosophical about it.
If the rules don’t protect the bad guys, they don’t protect us either. Something is wrong with American education if so many people can’t figure that out.
Brian C.B.
Is this the case where Nancy took a CNN camera crew on a tour of the crime scene (a house) without securing permission from the court and advising the defense she was doing it, is it? Part of the official slap on Grace was that she was starting to info-tain while still on the public payroll.
The job of prosecutor isn’t to convict some sap of a crime. It’s to weigh the evidence and determine whether a case against a suspect is valid and a prosecution just, if and then to prosecute. They’re gatekeepers, it is their reasonable doubt which is to be satisfied, first. Those who dispense with this part of the job are those behind false convictions.I imagine Grace was a poor trustee of the public interest by this definition.