Celebrity Justice
Was Paris a Victim of "The Nancy Grace Effect"?

CNN Headline News anchor Nancy Grace has been one of the harshest critics of Sheriff Lee Baca's handling of Paris Hilton, but did she have a hand in getting Paris transferred last night?

Grace slammed Hilton and her "medical condition" on her June 12 show, saying, "I want to find out how attention deficit disorder, mild and very recent depression, dry skin and a bout of claustrophobia can land you in a privileged unit reserved for the acutely medically ill. I don't understand that."

Today, TMZ asked Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore if Grace or any other person in the media had anything to do with the Sheriff's decision. Whitmore told us, "No. The Sheriff, after he gets consultation and receives the best information available, makes the decision."

Hard to blame him if it did though -- Grace can be kind of scary.



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301. nancy is so ugly and so loud. I wish she would lose her voice, so she could never speak again!! why is she on tv anyway? who cares what a fat, ugly, rich white woman says anyway...just move to texas! all she does is blah blah blah..just like a chicken!!

Posted at 1:46AM on Jun 17th 2007 by walrus

302. Skank, whore. Staple your mouth.

Posted at 11:16AM on Jun 17th 2007 by Nigel Perry

303. Foot in Mouth Disease: Nancy Grace obviously shoots from the lip...before she knows the real truth. The wife of the LA Citty Attorney, Michelle D., was fined $187.00 for leaving the scene of an injury accident, driving without insurance and driving on a SUSPENDED license...no jail time. Where is the justice here? Or, is the incaracation of Miss Paris Hilton more sinister than that. Rumor has it, that the FBI is investigating the Mayor of LA and the City Attorney's Office re: the recent race riot (la raza) where known gangsters (criminal illegal aliens) hid behind women and children while throwing rocks and bottles at LA's finest. Was the excessive sentence and jailing of Miss Paris Hilton, just a ploy by the City Attorney and his ilk to get the media off his back for the crimes of early May? For your edification, this devise is know as the "Blackbird Effect:" When a public official is cought with his hand in the 'cookie jar' that PO will cause another stir of which will send the Media scrambling to the new story, thereby taking the 'heat' off himself. Akin to when there is a minor disturbance, a flock of Black Birds fly from one telephone wire to another. Nancy shame on you and your big mouth!

Posted at 12:16PM on Jun 17th 2007 by Willy

304. nancy grace rocks i said i love nancy grace!!!!!!!!8 o'clock eastern........................

Posted at 8:04PM on Jun 17th 2007 by nancy grace rocks

305. nancy grace knows DRUNK DRIVING KILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 7:55PM on Jun 17th 2007 by nancy grace rocks

306. nancy grace rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 8:03PM on Jun 17th 2007 by nancy grace rocks

307. i really love it when she says, goodnight friend, hope she doesn't have to help one of you find a lost love one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!nancy you rock on gurl we love you way up here in maine.............

Posted at 8:06PM on Jun 17th 2007 by nancy grace rocks

308. NICE PICTURE OF NANCY GRACE.YOU REALLY DIDENT NEED A STORY JUST A SENTENCE. SOMETHING LIKE/ THIS PICTURE OF NANCY GRACE SUMS UP HER FEELINGS CONCERNING PARIS HILTON.

Posted at 9:39AM on Jun 18th 2007 by JOSEPH CAPRIO

309. http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/19/hilton.prosecutor.ap/index.html
On Monday, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo was the one apologizing for keeping quiet about a 2004 accident in which his wife crashed his city-issued vehicle -- while driving on a suspended license.

Posted at 4:13PM on Jun 19th 2007 by crymeariver

310. My opinion re: Paris Hilton's meltdown in jail is that she was withdrawing from a drug addiction. Now that she is being medicated with Valium or somesuch, she seems better able to cope. I'm surprised that noone thought of this scenario. She's obviously not a drinker (despite the DUI), but to do the things that she does in public, she must have had a very bad addiction to narotics or stimulants or both. Just one woman's opinion.

Posted at 7:22PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Bonnie Robinson

311. I think Nancy is right on the money. She says and asks the questions that most of us want to know, and gets answers. She knows exactly what she is doing and does it GREAT!!!
I watch her every night!

Posted at 9:47AM on Jun 20th 2007 by Debbie in NC

312. I certainly believe Nancy Grace's opinions and facts... . Court TV, some of their legal team had some influence on the judge's decision to make Paris go back to jail.

Posted at 12:35PM on Jun 20th 2007 by Spikenard

313. LMFAO!!

Oh yeah RIGHT!!! It's Nancy's fault that Paris went BACK to jail to do the TIME she was suppose to be doing anyway. Paris is suddenly just another victim of some TV commentator and her OWN actions and bad judgement have nothing to do with it?

Get the heads out of your asses people!!

Posted at 9:09PM on Jun 21st 2007 by Nancy Graces secret lover

314. Suggestion to help save the trapped Utah miners.
The Utah mine disaster has turned into a monumental problem to rescue trapped miners. A simple solution to this dilemma: Have CNN mandate Nancy Grace out of her in-patient psych-hospital right now, and place Nancy down in the Utah mine with a lengthy written-script for her to read out-loud. Direct her mouth towards the areas where they need removal of coal, support beams, and timbers, and by having Nancy speak out loud, it will generate enough hot air to help cause the coal and beams to incinerate and disappear, and will then allow passage by some rescue-miners to help finally locate some of the missing miners. Get a court-order if necessary to get Nancy back out of her Houston psych-hospital, and get her mouth finally working for victims for a change. While it would truly be the first time Nancy Grace would have ever affected a positive change for any victim, at least it is a start. Apparently, her doctors have objected thus far to all efforts to have Nancy released early from her psych-ward. But, there remains victims that are in need of some monumental volumes of hot air, and Nancy has proven she can generate that volume of hot-air needed to incinerate everything in her path. Victims lives are at stake, the doctors need to release Nancy right now and have her travel with a doctor to prevent Nancy from drinking herself into another fall like she just did again weeks ago. Nancy really should stop her alcoholic and non-stop drinking, especially if she is pregnant as she claims right now. She certainly comes across as the drunk she actually is.

Posted at 11:15PM on Aug 18th 2007 by Michelle from Madison

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