Driver of Recalled GM Vehicle Cleared of Negligent Homicide
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Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images(CANTON, Texas) — A woman who had pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in 2004 in a car crash that killed her fiancé was declared innocent on Monday after a district judge determined that the crash was caused by a faulty ignition switch in the car — the same faulty ignition switch that led millions of General Motors vehicles to be recalled.
An attorney for the woman, Candice Anderson, said in a statement on Monday that “GM knew this defect caused this death yet, instead of telling the truth, watched silently as Candice was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.” The attorney says that the judge granted a Writ of Habeas Corpus, “and in doing so declared Candice Anderson actually innocent of the death of her fiancé.”
Hilliard urged GM to “double its efforts to find all victims of this defect.” Instead of Anderson, he said that “now, it’s time for the true criminal, GM, to have its conduct evaluated by district attorneys around the country so the world knows that billion dollar corporations and those that make the decisions inside those corporations can also go to jail and be subject to the criminal justice system.”
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