Posted on 11/22/2006 3:06:33 PM PST by beyond the sea
(November 22, 2006) - - A Lockport couple who's suing a CNN journalist is breaking their silence over the death of their daughter and the search for their missing grandson. News 4's Michele McClintick reports.
21 year old Melinda Duckett was the mother of two year old Trenton Duckett, who has been missing since August.
Melinda did a phone interview on CNN's Nancy Grace Show on September 7th. One day later, the young mother took her life.
Her parents in Lockport were outraged by the talk show hosts harsh, accusatory line of questioning. The segment aired just hours after her death.
Melinda's father, Jerry Eubank: "It was 3-4 hours after I heard that Mindy died and I'm watching this woman banging the table, and screaming about why aren't you telling us this, I mean she was judge, jury and executioner."
Melinda's mother, Beth Eubank: "She physically makes me ill. The night she aired the show on September 8th, it was less than four hours since Mindy's death, family members had not even been notified."
CNN had this response to the news that the Lockport couple is now suing Nancy Grace: "While we have no comment on pending litigation, we stand by Nancy Grace and fully support her, as we have from the beginning of this matter."
Good. It's nice to see lawyers and reporters cannibalizing their own.
"we stand by Nancy Grace" --- how can you stand the stench?
Do you think Nancy was correct in going after this young mother?
It may take a little lawyer action to get across the notion that playing "junior prosecutor" and being a "reporter" are not the same thing.
Some years back Tom Brokaw got sued for saying that Richard Jewell was the Atlanta Olympics bomber just because the man had his mother living with him (he was her caretaker, it turned out). Brokaw had no business prosecuting Jewell in the media and Grace has no business doing the same. Just as Brokaw was held accountable for his misdeeds so should Grace.
Nancy is an unmitigated disaster and an embarrassment to the legal profession and a pseudo-journalist. She hasn't changed since she was reprimanded as a prosecutor by the judges in Atlanta for making material misrepresentations to the court and witholding exculpatory facts from a defendant entitled to it under the law. The disciplinary case was reported in Federal Supplement or Federal Rules Decision (I recall reading it in one of those) She, in her own presumed sense of consumate wisdom and insight, had decided the guy was guilty and thus she was justified in her unlawful act. By doing so she became judge and jury in addition to her role as an advocate. CNN should relegate her to the rank of the properly unemployed.
""we stand by Nancy Grace" --- how can you stand the stench?"
We don't expect CNN to do the right thing. As Rush says, words mean something.
Nancy Grace-less is a slime ball media whore and I hope the family can go after her PERSONALLY.
Nancy Grace-less is a slime ball media whore and I hope the family can go after her PERSONALLY.
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No, but she agreed to the interview. Grace is never Grace-ful, and it will be hard to prove Grace drove her to suicide. How will they prove the girl didn't commit suicide over her own guilt?
So now the girl was guilty because Nasty iplied it?
Last I heard the "young woman" in question was considered the prime suspect in her son's death.
Good hunting, Nancy Grace. From the sound of it she saved the judicial system a lot of time and effort.
Melinda Duckett Killed Melinda Duckett.
Nancy Grace had noting to do with Duckett's taking of her own life.
No, I don't think so, but it is always hard to prove intent. Nancy will just claim that she asked a very real question, one that was begging to be answered. I am not all for Grace here, but I do think it will be hard for these people to prove that Graces interrogation was the reason this young woman commited suicide. I thought Graces questioning was brutal.
Big deal. Just because she's 'the prime suspect' doesn't make her guilty and it doesn't give Nasty the right to prosecute her on TV.
Not to mention the fact that an awful lot of "prime suspects" are just the easiest people for the police to hang a crime on. It doesn't mean they're guilty, it just means that they're convenient.
Really? Looks like this thread is about the judicial system preparing to expend time and effort, isn't it?
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