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Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield-20141212-17:49:00

candice pleaded guilty, gm did their own internal investigation of her crash, calling it unusual and noted the airbags should have deployed. >> i'm pulling for my justice. i want vindication. i want them to say -- i want people to know it was the car and it wasn't me. >> reporter: in this courthouse, the same one where she pleaded guilty to criminal negligent homicide, candice anderson finally got her justice. the judge placing the blame squarely on general motors. writing in the court opinion, while miss anderson pled guilty to a crime for which she was not at fault, gm had evidence that would have demonstrated her actual innocence and identified the true culprit and cause of the accident, general motors. candice's conviction overturned, she is now acquitted of any fault in the crash that killed michael. what would michael say?

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Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield-20141212-17:48:00

after the crash, xanax was found in candice's system. she was not prescribed the drug and says she took one pill the night before. >> do i think i was intoxicated that day? no, i wasn't intoxicated. >> reporter: but she was indicted on a felony charge intoxication manslaughter. she pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and was sentenced to five years probation and fined. she lived each day as a felon. >> reporter: you could have gone to jail for 20 years. >> i think about that all the time. i really do. >> reporter: but there is now proof that for a decade, general motors knew about a deadly defect in candice's car and millions more and kept it a secret. faulty ignition switches, causing the engine to stop suddenly disabling the airbags. as candice was prosecuted, gm did nothing to help her. in fact, in 2007, the same year

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Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield-20141212-17:53:00

you think individuals at general motors should stand trial? >> yeah, i do. they didn't have a problem sitting by while i was charged, convicted. >> what a story. candice will receive money from the victim compensation fund but by doing that they give up their right to fight gm in the future. it was a very difficult decision to make but she needed to move forward with her life and plans to use that money to finish nursing school and for her two young daughters. poppy harlow, cnn, new york. >> excellent reporting by our poppy harlow. thank you, poppy. well, hundreds of thousands of people without power and houses covered in mudslides. check out these live pictures right here from southern california. get this, that house that you see right here, it's covered with mud nearly up to the roof. we are going to take you there live, coming up.

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Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield-20141212-17:50:00

>> i pictured him rooting us in the courtroom, you know, and -- it's a good feeling to think that he's, you know, had a lot to do with this. >> reporter: gm would not comment on the judge's opinion but for the first time in this letter to candice's attorney, general motors admits it may be to blame. writing, "gm has determined that the crash involving miss anderson is one in which the recall condition may have caused or contributed to the frontal airbag nondeployment in the accident." is it enough? >> no, i don't think it's enough. i think they should have been there that day to support me, to put in some words before the judge, also. i really do. >> reporter: have you directly, candice, heard from general motors? >> never. >> reporter: still? >> and at this point, i don't think i ever will. >> reporter: so why didn't gm reach out to candice anderson when it investigated her crash

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Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield-20141212-17:47:00

i was robbed of that. >> reporter: it started with a fatal car crash. candice was behind the wheel when her brand-new saturn ion slammed into a tree on this east country road in 2004. >> this one right here. >> reporter: this is the tree you hit? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: her boyfriend, michael erickson, was in the passenger seat. he was candice's first love. >> i went through the windshield and on the hood of the car and then his face was facedown in my lap. >> reporter: the father of two young girls, michael was instantly killed. candice still bears the scar of that day. her liver lacerated, nearly all of her ribs broken. >> reporter: do you ever have moments thinking why did i survive? >> oh, yeah. i felt that way the whole ten years. >> reporter: the police report says neither candice nor michael was wearing a police report. the airbags did not deploy.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140624:19:07:00

from voters. candice said, look, it's time for a change for my generation. she's 30. she said, rangel's a fool, he doesn't help us get affordable housing, but he has three apartments. that's a grassroots kind of ground-level view of the ethics issues. i talked to another gentleman, charles, 80 years old, who told me, rangel's been around so long, i think this is his last hurrah, i trust him. two views from the ground there. your thoughts on that race, whether rangel holds on, and the nature of the opposition to him, someone who msnbc viewers will recognize who's a long-time leader of the congressional black caucus, has his fans, but also has many detractors. >> well, i think it's interesting that the governor of the state, andrew cuomo, and former president bill clinton are sticking with him. i think that's interesting and not insignificant. i'm amazed at the conventional wisdom as of this minute is rangel is going to hold on. i'm not amazed because i think

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Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield-20140611-16:50:00

lawsuits for the faulty ignition switch linked to at least 13 deaths. but candice's case against the car manufacturer may stand out. here is a picture of anderson as she's buying her new car in 2004. one of the millions of cars that g mr has since recalled. later that year, anderson was in a horrible sing of-car gent that actually killed her fiance. anderson, thinking she had caused the accident and rife with guilt at the time, pled guilty to criminally negligent homicide. this is the mug shot from that time. let's fast forward ten years. anderson just found out that she may not, in fact, have been at fault. a few weeks ago the national highway traffic safety administration, the federal agency that regulates car safety, it sent her a letter. in that letter, information that

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140328:17:58:00

[ female announcer ] we eased your back pain, you turned up the fun. tylenol® provides strong pain relief while being gentle on your stomach. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. tylenol®. candice... we kno(door-hey)o much more. you said in a focus group you'd "like to have a product that eliminates odors and doesn't just mask them." could you give us access to maybe the smelliest room in your house? -sure come on in. the trash is bad... oh yeah. ...and we just took it out. febreze doesn't mask odors, it actually eliminates them. it smells really nice. like fresher. another success story. (laughs) don't just mask odors; eliminate them with febreze air effects. and to continuously eliminate odors in small spaces, try febreze set and refresh. breathe happy.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140325:18:50:00

[ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ candice... my mo(door-hey) ge. you said in a focus group you'd "like to have a product that eliminates odors and doesn't just mask them." could you give us access to maybe the smelliest room in your house? -sure come on in. the trash is bad... oh yeah. ...and we just took it out. febreze doesn't mask odors, it actually eliminates them. it smells really nice. like fresher. another success story. (laughs) don't just mask odors; eliminate them with febreze air effects. and to continuously eliminate odors in small spaces, try febreze set and refresh. breathe happy.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140325:09:12:00

♪ candice... (door-hey) you said in a focus group you'd "like to have a product that eliminates odors and doesn't just mask them." could you give us access to maybe the smelliest room in your house? -sure come on in. the trash is bad... oh yeah. ...and we just took it out. febreze doesn't mask odors, it actually eliminates them. it smells really nice. like fresher. another success story. (laughs) don't just mask odors; eliminate them with febreze air effects. and to continuously eliminate odors in small spaces, try febreze set and refresh. breathe happy.

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