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Updated: 5:53 PM Feb 3, 2012
Top Legal Analyst Shares Insight on Harrington, Love Cases
One of the top television legal analysts in the country was in Charlottesville Wednesday, sharing his opinion on the Yeardley Love and Morgan Harrington cases and explaining why each continues to attract national attention.
Posted: 5:15 PM Feb 16, 2011Reporter: Carter Johnson Email Address: carter.johnson@newsplex.com  Top Legal Analyst Shares Insight on Harrington, Love Cases |
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February 16, 2011
CBS News legal analyst Jack Ford has covered some of the most compelling cases in the country over the past few decades. He was in Charlottesville on Wednesday speaking to a group at the University of Virginia Miller Center for Public Affairs about the significance of these cases.
Before that appearance, however, Ford spoke with CBS19 about two of the most compelling cases in Charlottesville in recent memory - the tragic deaths of Morgan Harrington and Yeardley Love - and the national attention each continues to receive.
In pinpointing the attention, Ford said that the Love and Harrington stories tug at the heartstrings of parents across the country.
"I looked at her face in the picture and it reminded me of my daughter. I'm sure it reminds so many people out there of their own daughters," he said of Yeardley Love, the slain UVa women's lacrosse player.
Love's death at her off-grounds apartment in May 2010 is evidence that violence can happen anywhere and to anyone.
"Here she is at the University of Virginia, a spectacular place that any parent would love to have their child, and yet, she's not immune to that violence," the former Court TV personality explained.
Her suspected murderer, ex-boyfriend and former men's lacrosse player George Huguely, just adds to the drama of the case.
"The sense of loss, the frustration, the fear that parents would have, seeing two young people whose lives conceivably are completely lost. One truly lost, and the other spending the rest of his life in prison," said Ford, who added that the national audience will only grow if the case goes to trial.
In the Harrington case, the legal analyst said her story is compelling because the killer remains at large.
"You have the combination of a parent's worst nightmare and a violent death unresolved. That's certainly a recipe of a significant focus by the public," Ford said.
He added that the case is especially difficult for the community as the search for clues drags on and the possibility of an arrest becomes less.
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@ Christ It is Psychology 101 Abused persons be it man or women are afraid to tell either by the parties threatening the other. They become co-dependent & fall 4 "babe I am so sorry I will never do this again." They forgive, have that honey moon period & get abused again worse than the last time. For Morgan, the perfect scenario would of been her friends watching her, or the people that saw her in the condition she was in stop & help her & called 911. I am sure that if police were called she most likely been arrested for DIP her parents would of much rather have a phone call that she was arrested, than the phone call she is missing. i In her altered state she became vulnerable to the wrong person (S)I am not saying it was there fault I am saying lack of actions the girls met there demise. The 2 murders a lesson 2 everyone, What is the purpose? U can't question God, everything happens 4 a reason. UVA changed policies. More Awareness resources for students. Sad they died 4 making change
@Tired. Why do you like so many other posters on stories like this, feel the need to blame the victim? You are just a well as sayng it was THEIR fault. There is a little something wrong with someone who feels this way.
LA Jack what makes him think it is 1 killer instead of 2? Does he think that the people in Charlottesville have not figured this out when the crimes were commited? Morgan contributed to her own death by her actions or lack of. Love if she would of reported this relationship was abusive she may still be alive. if, ifs and ands were pots and pans the world would be a stove.
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