head of tax disputes at collyer bristow. hello, welcome, thanks forjoining us. tell us first of all, simon jason, how you felt when the taxman got in touch to say there may be an issue. ~ ~ issue. well,! i think we were shocked- issue. well,! i think we were shocked. it issue. well,! i think we were shocked. it came issue. well,! i think we were shocked. it came out - issue. well,! i think we were shocked. it came out of- issue. well,! i think we were shocked. it came out of the l issue. well,! i think we were - shocked. it came out of the blue. neither of us had been aware, as the charge hadn t applied back in 2012, when it first came in. jason wasn t in that kind of income anyway, so we were shocked, it was out of the blue. it were shocked, it was out of the blue. . ., , were shocked, it was out of the blue. . . , .,, were shocked, it was out of the blue. . . , ., so were shocked, it was out of the blue. so the i were shocked, it was out of the i blue. so the rules blue. it c
later. it had to come. since this was a civil case, jason wasn t getting any present time. what amount of punitive damages, if any, do you award the estate of shirley carter? answer, 10 million. dollars 10 million. bill and his lawyers never expected to see a dime. the more important thing for bill was simply to have eight people from that county hearing all the evidence and saying, just handed it. meanwhile, the county district attorney ed bull, sitting in the back of the courtroom, had been watching closely. what would he do now? coming up the fates we re not quite through with the carter family. i got right into his face. and i said, why did you kill your mother? there would soon be an ax to. what is the biggest thing you have going in your favor this time? there really was no significant evidence against
reporter: since this was a civil case, jason wasn t getting any prison time. what amount of punitive damages, if any, do you award the estate of shirley carter? answer, $10 million. reporter: 10 million. bill and his lawyer never expected to see a dime. the more important thing for bill was simply to have eight people from that county hearing all the evidence and saying jason did it. reporter: meanwhile, the county district attorney, ed bull, sitting in the back of the courtroom, had been watching closely. what would he do now? coming up the fates were not quite through with the carter family. ill got rice right into his face. why did you kill your mother? there would soon be an act two. what is the biggest thing you have going in your favor in this thing? there really was no significant evidence against jason carter. when dateline continues. saturdays happen.
now jason went to prison in 1998 at the age of 21 for dealing crack cocaine. he d been selling since he was 15, but this was his first conviction on drug charges, and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. jason, we re going to show you here pictures of him take nen prison over the years on these family visits he kept his head down. after ten years in a maximum security prison with no spots on his record he s able to transfer to a medium security prison the same prison president obama visited this week. but jason wasn t there because in december 2013 he was one of eight inmates whose sentences were commuted. his was cut down from life without parole to 20 years. now he s out of prison and serving the rest of his sentence under house arrest in mckinney, texas. his sentence will be over this a few days. joining me now is managing editor of msnbc.com, poet
mare reen died last summer while being treated at the va s medical center for anxiety and addiction to pain medication. his cause of death, mixed drug toxicity according to a county medical examiner. the va prescribed 14 drugs including painkillers. . it said 14. we didn t know that. it was in the autopsy report. the doctor in charge the prescription policies was dr. david houlihan. some patients and staff called him the candy man. and the hospital canned yea land. according to va documents obtained by the center for investigative reporting, prescriptions for four common opiates quadrupled. they come out worse than when they went in. they get all drugged up. jason wasn t the only patient to die under dr. houlihan s care. carrie spent years piecing together befdz what happened to