My only comment on the Jackson case has nothing to do with the case directly, but rather with CNN Helmet-head Harpy Nancy Grace.
CNN proudly describes Grace as "one of television's most respected legal analysts" and is happy to provide interested parties with a detailed account of her legal education and career, right down to her stint as a business law instructor in Georgia State University's school of business.
There is, however, one inconveniently disturbing detail on which CNN maintains a studied silence: On three occasions involving three separate cases, appellate courts have cited Grace for unethical behavior while she was a Fulton County prosecutor.
I hope that Jackson and his attorney's sue the crap out of her and CNN, not for what she "reported" during the trial but for the comments she was trying to elict from the jurors last night. She did everything but put the words "but he's a child molester and that's the facts Jack" in each interviewee's mouth, repeatedly. She was so hoping that Jackson was going to be found guilty, so she could start making the obligatory jokes about "Bubba" at Chino or Lompoc or wherever he might have been sent, committing prison-rape on Jackson in her snide, harpy way and lapping up the sycophantic praise of her lapdog "guests"for her "wit" and "incisive observation".
Best moment of the night: when Jackson family attorney Deborah Opri (sp?), looking cool, calm and collected basically told Grace to get over it and get on with her life, Jackson was found not guilty and she'd have to give it up. Grace looked like she'd been smacked with a bag of quarters.
/end of jackson comments
posted by Jo Fish on 06.14.05 at 12:18 PM
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I'm a retired prosecutor and criminal defense attorney for 27 years in California. Nancy Grace's attitude has never appealed to me.
I agree with you. CNN should place a caveat on screen before she appears on her daily program warning the viewers that she has been found repeatedly to be unethical as a prosecutor and the reasons for it.
Of course that will never happen.
Dan Abrams, on MSNBC, is another dingbat. I've often wondered if he's ever tried a criminal case before a jury.
Nancy Grace isn't a legal analyst. She's a blood-thirsty revenge demon, seething with anger and hate for anyone accused by the state of committing a crime. Her appearances continue to discredit what's left of CNN.
