News From The Associated Press – York Daily Record/Sunday News
Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV’s famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace. Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: “Where were you? Why aren’t you telling us where you were that day?”
A day after the taping, Duckett, 21, shot herself to death, deepening the mystery of what happened to the boy.
Not in the least surprising. Nancy Grace has never really understood all that “innocent until proven guilty” stuff. As far as I can tell, she thinks it’s metaphysically impossible to be a defendant in the courtroom and still be innocent. Her book is quoted with comments on wikipedia:
“I’m on a search for the truth,” she says during a recent visit to the District to promote her new book, “Objection!,” in which the former prosecutor calls defense attorneys “dangerous” and compares them to pigs. The way Grace sees it, prosecutors want to do what’s right, whereas defense attorneys are unethical and just want to win. She’d never cross over to what she calls the “dark side” because “I don’t really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.”
Ya ever start to think that America is just broken?
Dammit, Ed, you got my hopes up. I was hoping the suicide would be Nancy herself. That bitch drives me nuts.
Way to let me down, dude.