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-year-old son, caden. their evidence, threatening text messages sent by justine just minutes before the fatal collusion. here again is keith morrison. >> the sorrow went deep in montana's flatten valley, that awful spring of 2009. deep and wide, the whole valley, in fact the country, heard about the crash that killed caden and erin and her unborn child, and her estranged and disturbing story that 16 year old justine winter-- oncoming car. cross the centerline and plowed right into them. on purpose. shocking? oh yes. as was the reason. justine said the police was trying to commit suicide. how did they know?

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public opinion has turned as bitter as a winter of montana. and justine who showed up in an almost childlike polka dot hair band, didn't look the part of an accused killer facing as many as 200 years behind bars. but there she was. >> i can see the debris field. >> with the two families just a few feet away she watched investigators testify to a certainty that it was justine's pontiac car that crossed the centerline. >> here you can see all this debris from the initial impact of the crash. >> slamming into erin's subaru so hard that it was driven backward into the highway barrier and crash reconstructionist agree. >> justine winter's car approached the northbound lane, striking mrs. thompson's vehicle. >> but what evidence was there that justine had done it as the law says purposefully? investigators pulled the black

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know that justine knowingly cross the centerline. having decided to commit suicide by hitting the other car. a question we put to the prosecutor. >> in order to draw that conclusion, you have to read her mind essentially. you've been a prosecutor for years. you know car accidents happen in the most bizarre ways. people do crazy things on the road. but you clearly said, this was a situation in which i know what somebody was thinking. when they drove across that lane of traffic and into the other car. >> no. >> i just don't know how you can know what she was thinking. >> we can't know what she was thinking. she doesn't know what she was thinking at the time. >> exactly. >> all i can do is base my decision on what the evidence shows. >> did the evidence clearly show that justine winters had made up her mind to commit suicide by driving into an oncoming car? up to the jury now. >> coming up. >> everyone just cried about it. >> a verdict comes quick. but the pain and one final

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crossed the centerline and smashed into erin thompson's car, but the worst of it? the inconceivable part was, this was not an accident at all. what was your first reaction? >> nuts. it was the last thing i wanted was to have to take a double fatality and have to not treated as a homicide. >> homicide? yes, right there in justine's car officers found what amounted to a minute by minute narrative of the event leading to the events in text messages. in those text messages the prosecutor said, was the evidence. he believed require him to press criminal charges against that girl doctors had quite miraculously saved, justine winters, charged as a murder.

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i want to let you guys know that my heart goes out to you. and as every single one of you came up here today, my heart was breaking. but i just hope that you guys will be able to forgive that i will never be able to say that i intentionally crossed the centerline, wanting to take three lives from all of you. >> but before the judge allowed justine to leave the witness stand, the prosecutor stepped to the podium and asked a question on behalf of the victims families. a question that froze the courtroom. >> what they wanted to hear from you for a long, long time also, is i'm sorry. can you tell them that? >> i'm sorry for your loss.

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his case in court, attorneys maxwell battle and david stufft told the jury that everything the prosecution told them, everything they knew about the case so far, was wrong. >> what happened out there was an accident. >> including where the crash occurred. remember the prosecutions expert testified there was in no doubt justine crossed the centerline and veered into erin thompson's lean column thing the crash. but referencing engineer hired by the defense said his research turned that finding on its head. he claimed it was erin who drove out of her lane in that construction zone and struck justine. and the defense went further. claiming that slap a mark near the 85 mile per hour mark on the edge -- was planted there by investigators. that the black box had measured speed and breaking was plain wrong.

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his duties as president. he has absolute immunity. the judge presiding over the case at the time said, i don't think so. what trump did is what he always done when he gets an adverse ruling in court. he appealed and appealed and appealed. it merrick garland has's head as one of his top two dudes since entering office, get out of defending trump. -- he was found liable for sexual assault and a jury found him guilty to the tune of $5 million and he continues back on that woman. that gives merck garland all that needs to say, look, this is motivated by personal animus. nothing to do with his presidential duties. the important thing is, if doj is out that means trump doesn't have absolute immunity, he will centerline. >> let us talk about that bad-mouthing of aging carroll. his reaction, quite honestly, trump's reaction, to the litter itself. he went on to social media and

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always done when he gets an adverse ruling in court. he appealed and appealed and appealed. it merrick garland has's head as one of his top two dudes since entering office, get out of defending trump. -- he was found liable for sexual assault and a jury found him guilty to the tune of $5 million d on that woman. that gives merck garland all that needs to say, look, this is motivated by personal animus. nothing to do with his presidential duties. the important thing is, if doj is out that means trump doesn't have absolute immunity, he will centerline. >> let us talk about that bad-mouthing of aging carroll. his reaction, quite honestly, trump's reaction, to the litter itself. he went on to social media and repeated a lot of defamatory comments he made about her and clementine. look, i can ask the question, does this guy ever know when to keep his mouth shut, does he

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