Nancy Grace

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Nancy Grace

Nancy Grace (born October 23, 1959 in Macon (Georgia) ) is an American television journalist and presenter who mainly deals with current legal issues and judicial cases.

Live and act

When she was 19 years old, her fiancé was murdered. This event led Nancy Grace to study law and become a prosecutor.

After graduating from high school in 1977, she studied at Valdosta State University and Mercer University , where she received her bachelor's degree and a Juris Doctorate . She then completed the Ll.M. Program from New York University .

Nancy Grace worked for the Federal Trade Commission and taught at Georgia State University . For almost a decade she was in criminal cases working as employee of the district attorney in Fulton County (Georgia) . During that time, the Georgia State Supreme Court made two critical comments about Nancy Grace's conduct as a prosecutor.

When her boss did not stand for re-election, Nancy Grace also left the district attorney's office and began a television career on Court TV alongside Johnnie Cochran . When he left the show, Nancy Grace received her own show. In 2005 she also began a primetime legal program on CNN Headline News (HLN) ; in June 2007 she finished her Court TV show, for which she had received two Gracie Awards .

Among the cases she has reported on is the death of two-year-old Caylee Anthony, whose mother Casey Anthony was acquitted of murder charges. The way in which Nancy Grace presented this and other cases has been the subject of criticism. In the 2002 Elizabeth A. Smart kidnapping case, Nancy Grace repeatedly found a suspect guilty, which ultimately turned out to be false. Also in the case of an alleged rape in 2006, Nancy Grace hastily supported false suspicions. In September 2006, in an interview, she pressured a young mother whose two-year-old son had disappeared. The next day, before the program was broadcast, the suspect shot herself.

There were allegations of plagiarism against the book Objection! - How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System , because a passage without a source was taken from the New York Times.

In 2011 she appeared in Dancing with the Stars .

In January 2014, Nancy Grace caused a sensation when she said: "People who are stoned shoot each other, stab each other, strangle each other, drive around in a drugged state - they wipe out entire families." spoke out against the legalization of cannabis in Colorado.

In the 2016 comic film adaptation of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice by Zack Snyder , she has a cameo in which she plays herself.

Works

  • Objection! - How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System . New York City: Hyperion, 2005. ISBN 978-1-4013-0180-4 .
  • The Eleventh Victim . New York City: Hyperion, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4013-0345-7 .
  • Death on the D-List . New York City: Hyperion, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4013-2313-4 .

Private

In 2007 she married an investment banker whom she met while studying in the 1970s. In January 2008 she became the mother of twins.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rebecca Dana: Did Nancy Grace, TV Crimebuster, Muddy Her Myth? . The New York Observer . March 5, 2006. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
  2. ↑ David Carr: TV Justice Thrives on Fear , New York Times , May 22, 2011.
  3. ↑ http://www.20min.ch/schweiz/news/story/15007833

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Commons : Nancy Grace  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Grace, Nancy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American presenter
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Macon (Georgia) , USA