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Fashionista
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Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:06 pm |
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Nancy Grace Fights Taping of Deposition
Nancy Grace doesn't want camera in deposition
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
(01-26) 07:59 PST Orlando, Fla. (AP) --
Talk show host Nancy Grace doesn't want her deposition in a central Florida wrongful death lawsuit videotaped.
Her attorney wants a federal judge to prohibit videotaping of Grace during a deposition Thursday or prohibit the release of the deposition if it is videotaped. Her attorneys say it's necessary to protect Grace from embarrassment. She's a host of HLN, formerly CNN Headline News.
Grace is being sued by Melinda Duckett's family. They blame her for inflicting emotional distress on the 21-year-old Florida mother during an appearance on her talk show.
Duckett was on Grace's show in 2006 after her son Trenton disappeared. Grace grilled the woman, accusing her of hiding something. Duckett shot and killed herself the day the taped interview was scheduled to air.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/26/entertainment/e075910S55.DTL
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| gwen
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Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:12 pm |
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Geeez...ok for her to put lives of others all over the media, but her deposition should...What a hypocrite!
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| PerryPeabody
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Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:14 pm |
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Reading a deposition on paper is like eating a peach without feeling the fuzz.
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Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:14 pm |
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Now that's funny...Nancy Grace doesn't want to be embarrassed in the media.
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| pax
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Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:30 pm |
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| prolific wrote: | | Now that's funny...Nancy Grace doesn't want to be embarrassed in the media. |
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| gwen
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Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:50 pm |
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Trenton's Dad: Nancy Grace Did Nothing Wrong
Melinda Duckett's Family Blames Nancy Grace For Suicide
LEESBURG, Fla. -- Melinda Duckett is the only person Leesburg police named as a suspect in Trenton Duckett's disappearance more than three years ago.
The little boy's father, Josh Duckett, said he believes talk show host Nancy Grace didn't push Melinda over the edge. He said it's the mother's guilt that lead to her suicide.
"I don't feel Nancy Grace did anything wrong," Josh Duckett said.
Josh Duckett believes Grace didn't hammer his ex-wife Melinda Duckett with any tougher questions than he endured when put in the hot seat about Trenton's disappearance in 2006.
"She asked questions that really honestly need to be answered," he said.
The day after being grilled by Grace, Melinda Duckett shot and killed herself in her grandparents' closet.
Her family blames Grace in a newly filed lawsuit, seeking more than $15,000.
"They didn't force her to do the show," Josh Duckett said.
"I only wish I would have questioned her more," Grace said.
Grace is set to give a videotaped deposition in Atlanta Thursday morning, but a judge has ruled, at Grace's request, that the tape cannot be released to the public without the court's consent.
Duckett feels that's fair.
"If it does get leaked, it's going to turn my son's case into a three-ring circus," Josh Duckett said.
Investigators said in the last year they've only have five leads on potential Trenton sightings across the country, and consider it a cold case.
Josh Duckett said he is still focused on finding his son alive -- not on the courtroom drama over Melinda's death.
Grace is scheduled to be deposed in Atlanta.
A CNN rep said Grace has no comment.
http://www.wesh.com/news/22357128/detail.html
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| SavannahStar
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Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:51 pm |
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| pax wrote: |
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I'll raise ya one.
I think it's hysterical!!!!
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| Fashionista
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Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:00 pm |
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Nancy Grace deposition in wrongful death lawsuit to be videotaped
January 27, 5:09 PM
A Florida judge has ruled that HLN’s Nancy Grace must submit to a videotaped deposition. Grace, a former Atlanta prosecutor is being sued for the wrongful death of Melinda Duckett. Attorneys representing the cable talk show host had hoped the judge would deny the oppositions request to videotape the deposition or at least stop it from being released to the public. The ruling says that the deposition may be recorded but it can not be shared with a third party. Attorneys for Grace wanted to protect her privacy and avoid any embarrassment.
More: >>> http://www.examiner.com/x-11608-Atlanta-TV-Examiner~y2010m1d27-Nancy-Grace
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| SavannahStar
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Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:31 pm |
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeehaw!!!!!!! 
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| Schmerty
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Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:58 pm |
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So she doesn't get to be treated differently than her fellow men & women. However there are good things about her. I wish Josh Duckett had his little son with him! 
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| Isanah
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Wed Jan 27, 2010 10:07 pm |
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| Schmerty wrote: | | So she doesn't get to be treated differently than her fellow men & women. However there are good things about her. I wish Josh Duckett had his little son with him! |
Apparently she is. The deposition will not be released to the public.
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| Noor
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Wed Jan 27, 2010 10:19 pm |
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| Isanah wrote: |
Apparently she is. The deposition will not be released to the public. |
Casey Anthony should hire Nancy's lawyers.
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| Schmerty
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Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:34 am |
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I still wish Josh Duckett had his son. He didn't murder him like his mother did. It is really sad, heartbreaking when you are involved with a murderous demented partner.   God be with you Josh!
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| Fashionista
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Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:11 pm |
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Nancy Grace Hacks, Sneezes Through Deposition
Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:34PM by TMZ Staff
Nancy Grace's deposition could make you sick .... if you were sitting in the same room with her.
Grace sat for her deposition in Atlanta today, in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a woman who killed herself after getting grilled by Grace.
We're told Grace had an epic cold and barely made it through the depo. Various people in the room were bringing her Vicks cough drops, Kleenex and other accoutrement.
Our sources say the depo wasn't groundbreaking ... no smoking gun.
Much to the chagrin of Grace and CNN, the deposition was videotaped but the tape is under wraps
http://www.tmz.com/2010/01/28/nancy-grace-deposition-sick-melinda-duckett-wrongful-death-lawsuit-cnn/
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| SavannahStar
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Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:58 pm |
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| Noor wrote: |
Casey Anthony should hire Nancy's lawyers. |
 True dat.
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| Isanah
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Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:11 pm |
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I do believe Nancy is an ass, but I don't think she has responsibilty for Melinda's death. What do others think?
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| Arubalover
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Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:13 pm |
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I wonder how many times she interrupted the lawyer with her Whoa-Whoa-Whoa? 
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| pax
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Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:28 pm |
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| Isanah wrote: | | I do believe Nancy is an ass, but I don't think she has responsibilty for Melinda's death. What do others think? |
I tend to agree with you there Isanah. I'm interested to see where this case goes (which I'd guess will be nowhere).
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| Isanah
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Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:19 pm |
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| Arubalover wrote: | | I wonder how many times she interrupted the lawyer with her Whoa-Whoa-Whoa? |
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| gwen
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Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:08 am |
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Lawsuit: Nancy Grace employee knew of Melinda Duckett's mental instability
OCALA - A filing in a federal lawsuit against Nancy Grace says an employee of the cable talk show knew Melinda Duckett had once been involuntarily committed for mental instability before the Florida mom was grilled on the show.
The documents, filed by lawyers for Duckett's estate in a wrongful-death claim, also says Keren Schiffman, who booked guests on Grace's show, misled Melinda Duckett's lawyer, Kimberly Schulte of Leesburg, about the nature of her client's appearance.
Duckett reported that her 2-year-old son, Trenton, was missing from his bedroom of their garden-floor apartment in Leesburg on Aug. 27, 2006. She then committed suicide at her grandparents' home in The Villages on Sept. 8, 2006, hours before her interview was scheduled to air on Headline News or HLN, a division of CNN.
Grace, the host of a self-titled show on HLN, formerly CNN Headline News, is being sued by Duckett's family. They blame her for inflicting emotional distress on Melinda Duckett during a taped interview for the show.
Jay Paul Deratany, a South Florida lawyer representing Duckett's family, argued in the court document that Schiffman's testimony is important because it suggests negligence and can help prove that Grace and her show's employees "tricked" Duckett's lawyer into allowing the 21-year-old mother to appear on the program.
Lawyers for Grace, including Judith Mercier of Holland & Knight's Orlando office, submitted a written response Friday in federal court, describing the estate's filing as "filled with inaccuracies and misrepresentations."
Schulte, who testified at a deposition Dec. 21, was not told that Grace planned to interrogate Duckett.
According to the filing, Schulte "testified that the CNN booker/producer represented to her that the purpose of the show was not to interview or question Melinda Duckett about the disappearance, but that it was 'a picture show to help find Trenton' and that they 'wanted pictures, to put pictures on the show to help to try to find Trenton.' "
Schulte was later "shocked, upset and dismayed…to the point that she swore at Ms. Schiffman."
Grace, who testified in a deposition Jan. 28 in Atlanta, said she was not informed of Schiffman's representations to Duckett's lawyer and did not read any pre-interview notes Schiffman made about Duckett
Grace also testified that she routinely throws out pre-interview notes.
Trenton Duckett remains missing.
Leesburg police have labeled Melinda Duckett as the lone suspect in the boy's disappearance.
The trial in the wrongful-death lawsuit is set for July 6 in federal court in Ocala.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-nancy-grace-melinda-duckett-20100205,0,3572244.story
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