From Salon:

Grace gets sued: The family of Melinda Duckett, the mother of still-missing toddler Trenton Duckett who killed herself the day after taping an aggressively probing interview for Nancy Grace's "Headline News" show, is now suing both Grace and CNN for wrongful death. The suit claims the show misrepresented its intentions for the interview "in order to improve their ratings and for the prospective monetary gain of Defendant NANCY GRACE and Defendant CNN in malicious and contumacious disregard to inflicting severe emotional distress and damage" on both Duckett and her family. Grace's show aired the interview despite the news of Duckett's suicide -- you can watch the relevant exchange in a "Scarborough" clip on Video Dog. (The Smoking Gun, International Herald Tribune)

I have watched this woman play judge, jury and executioner for years.... Remember the Smart case, and Richard Ricci, who died with many people believing he had murdered Smart...

During the Smart case, when suspect Richard Ricci was arrested by police on the basis that he had a criminal record and had worked on the Smarts' home, Grace immediately and repeatedly proclaimed on CourtTV and CNN's Larry King that Ricci "was guilty", although there was little evidence to support this claim. She also suggested publically that Ricci's girlfriend was involved in the coverup of his alleged crime. Grace continued to malign Ricci, though he has since died^{[citation needed]}.

It was later revealed that Smart was kidnapped by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, two individuals with whom Richard Ricci had no connection.

Grace is a disgrace to journalism and an embarrassment to CNN. She should be fired for this latest incident, and I hope that she spends the rest of her life pondering the lives she has destroyed in her overzealous quest for her own form of justice.

In this country there is something called due process... As a former prosecutor, you would think that Grace would understand this. Instead she sees it as her personal prerogative to decide who is guilty and who isn't. It's time to put a stop to it, and NOW!

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