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As much as I detest Nancy Grace I'm strongly opposed to this suit. We better be careful about what precedents are set. Any of us could be on the receiving end one day by someone who has "bad nerves" & came unglued by something we said. The potential here is frightening. I don't believe someone can "make" another person commit suicide.

I don't think Grace's intentions were noble by any means. I think she wanted to press the mother so hard that she would break & confess on Nancy's show so she could take the credit for it. But I really believe this lawsuit is without merit.

As much as I detest Nancy Grace I'm strongly opposed to this suit.

In I general agree with you, but as with many legal issues it depends on what Grace and her minions said to the woman.

If they told her that she would be given the opportunity to seek help finding her missing child and then Grace switched on her, then Grace might have some liability. Basically if a jury finds that Grace and her agents baited and switched a vulnerable person, a jury might find a tort was committed.

The question becomes has someone committed a civil wrong, ie a tort, if they entice a person they knew to be psychologically vulnerable due to the loss of a child on their tv show with false assurances and then aggressively question them about their responsibility in the matter? No maybe Grace is such a jerk, that her defense is that the woman should not have expected any better from her.

But I think this would be very different than a stranger here coming to a rough and tumble discussion forum. We have no reason to know new comers are vulnerable. We did not bait them in with any promise to treat them well.

I agree. Although I don't see any actual liability for Grace, I think her interview was beyond the pale and CNN used terribly bad taste in running it after the woman killed herself. It was a hideous thing to do.

Since anybody can sue anybody anytime for anything in this country, I have to say I'm glad Grace is being sued and will probably have to fork out some dough.