11-09-2010, 12:23 PM
from post #6:
she is on (civil) trial in orlando for contributing to suicide of melinda duckett, however, i do NOT blame her for that. melinda was a cunt who killed her little boy i have no doubt. nancy grilled her on the show, and melinda ate a 12-gauge. too bad.
the civil case against her just settled:
Orlando Sentinel:
CNN talk-show host Nancy Grace received an apology today from Florida lawyers who once accused the bombastic personality of "ambushing" a grieving mother as the two sides announced a settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit over the suicide of Melinda Duckett.
Grace and the network agreed to establish a $200,000 trust fund dedicated to finding Duckett's missing son, Trenton. Melinda Duckett's estate had sued Grace, saying she drove the young Leesburg mother to suicide in 2006.
Duckett, 21, was grilled by Grace after reporting her 2-year-old son, Trenton, missing from his bedroom Aug. 27, 2006, then killed herself with a shotgun at her grandparents' home in The Villages on Sept. 8, 2006, the day that the taped interview with Grace was to be broadcast. Leesburg police say Duckett is still the lone suspect in the boy's disappearance.
The settlement must be approved by a federal judge in Ocala.
Under terms of the agreement, which was filed jointly in federal court by lawyers for Grace and for the estate, the money in the Trenton John Duckett Irrevocable Trust will transfer immediately to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children if Trenton is not found alive by his 13th birthday. He would be 6 today.
If Trenton is found alive before his 13th birthday, the trust's proceeds will be administered by his adoptive grandmother, Kathleen Calvert, for his benefit until his 18th birthday. He then could use the money as he wishes.
The estate's lawsuit, which alleged wrongful death and intentional infliction of emotional distress, blamed Grace and the news giant for pushing Duckett to suicide, arguing they were more concerned with ratings than "the human beings involved…"
Grace's lawyers claimed First Amendment protection and argued that Duckett had prepared for the televised interview by scripting "talking points" hoping to cast herself sympathetically to a suspicious audience.
Lawyers for the estate, Jay Paul Deratany and Kara Skorupa, did not immediately return messages left at their law office in Florida but extended an apology to CNN and Nancy Grace "to the extent that any suggestion has been made that anyone deliberately caused the family distress or Melinda Duckett's suicide."
Written on the law firm's letterhead and distributed by a network spokeswoman, the announcement also says, "After four years of litigation and extensive discovery, the parties now agree that Nancy Grace, the producers of her program and CNN engaged in no intentional wrongdoing in the course of dedicating a program to finding the missing toddler as alleged in the lawsuit. Throughout the entirety of the litigation process, all parties to the action acted in good faith and in the best interests of their clients."
Carolyn Dibrow, a spokeswoman for CNN and Grace, said the lawyers' statement "speaks for itself."
A former prosecutor, Grace pens a weekly syndicated column on legal issues that is published in the Orlando Sentinel and hosts a nightly, self-titled, justice-themed shown on HLN, a sister network of CNN, her employer.
The civil case was scheduled for trial next month in federal court.
Josh Duckett, Trenton's father and Melinda Duckett's estranged husband, said he was unaware of the tentative settlement.
"I've just got a lot of questions," he said.
After Trenton disappeared, Josh Duckett appeared on Grace's program and was praised by the talk-show host for his full cooperation with law-enforcement authorities, which included submitting to a lie-detector test.
melinda duckett:
she is on (civil) trial in orlando for contributing to suicide of melinda duckett, however, i do NOT blame her for that. melinda was a cunt who killed her little boy i have no doubt. nancy grilled her on the show, and melinda ate a 12-gauge. too bad.
the civil case against her just settled:
Orlando Sentinel:
CNN talk-show host Nancy Grace received an apology today from Florida lawyers who once accused the bombastic personality of "ambushing" a grieving mother as the two sides announced a settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit over the suicide of Melinda Duckett.
Grace and the network agreed to establish a $200,000 trust fund dedicated to finding Duckett's missing son, Trenton. Melinda Duckett's estate had sued Grace, saying she drove the young Leesburg mother to suicide in 2006.
Duckett, 21, was grilled by Grace after reporting her 2-year-old son, Trenton, missing from his bedroom Aug. 27, 2006, then killed herself with a shotgun at her grandparents' home in The Villages on Sept. 8, 2006, the day that the taped interview with Grace was to be broadcast. Leesburg police say Duckett is still the lone suspect in the boy's disappearance.
The settlement must be approved by a federal judge in Ocala.
Under terms of the agreement, which was filed jointly in federal court by lawyers for Grace and for the estate, the money in the Trenton John Duckett Irrevocable Trust will transfer immediately to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children if Trenton is not found alive by his 13th birthday. He would be 6 today.
If Trenton is found alive before his 13th birthday, the trust's proceeds will be administered by his adoptive grandmother, Kathleen Calvert, for his benefit until his 18th birthday. He then could use the money as he wishes.
The estate's lawsuit, which alleged wrongful death and intentional infliction of emotional distress, blamed Grace and the news giant for pushing Duckett to suicide, arguing they were more concerned with ratings than "the human beings involved…"
Grace's lawyers claimed First Amendment protection and argued that Duckett had prepared for the televised interview by scripting "talking points" hoping to cast herself sympathetically to a suspicious audience.
Lawyers for the estate, Jay Paul Deratany and Kara Skorupa, did not immediately return messages left at their law office in Florida but extended an apology to CNN and Nancy Grace "to the extent that any suggestion has been made that anyone deliberately caused the family distress or Melinda Duckett's suicide."
Written on the law firm's letterhead and distributed by a network spokeswoman, the announcement also says, "After four years of litigation and extensive discovery, the parties now agree that Nancy Grace, the producers of her program and CNN engaged in no intentional wrongdoing in the course of dedicating a program to finding the missing toddler as alleged in the lawsuit. Throughout the entirety of the litigation process, all parties to the action acted in good faith and in the best interests of their clients."
Carolyn Dibrow, a spokeswoman for CNN and Grace, said the lawyers' statement "speaks for itself."
A former prosecutor, Grace pens a weekly syndicated column on legal issues that is published in the Orlando Sentinel and hosts a nightly, self-titled, justice-themed shown on HLN, a sister network of CNN, her employer.
The civil case was scheduled for trial next month in federal court.
Josh Duckett, Trenton's father and Melinda Duckett's estranged husband, said he was unaware of the tentative settlement.
"I've just got a lot of questions," he said.
After Trenton disappeared, Josh Duckett appeared on Grace's program and was praised by the talk-show host for his full cooperation with law-enforcement authorities, which included submitting to a lie-detector test.
melinda duckett: