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Wide shot Howard K. Stern with his two attorneys 2.  SOUNDBITE (English) Howard K. Stern/Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend:\"You know, I loved Anna and I cared for her so much that at...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eBeverly Hills, California, 6 January 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot Howard K. Stern with his two attorneys \u003cbr/\u003e2.  SOUNDBITE (English) Howard K. Stern/Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend:\u003cbr/\u003e\"You know, I loved Anna and I cared for her so much that at this point I don't have regrets. The regrets that I have are what other people caused afterwards, having nothing to do with the truthful experience that we lived.\" \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Los Angeles, 7 August 2005\u003cbr/\u003e3. Tilt up and down of Anna Nicole Smith in black dress on red carpet, with Howard K. Stern\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Los Angeles, date unknown\u003cbr/\u003e4. Smith and Stern talking to press outside an event, Smith making drinking motion with her hand\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eBeverly Hills, California, 6 January 2011\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Howard K. Stern/Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Back then could I ever have anticipated being where I am right now? No, not in a million years. I wish she was here, she was here raising Dannielynn.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Sydney, Australia, 3 March 2005\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of Anna Nicole Smith at MTV Awards with Howard K. Stern\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eBeverly Hills, California, 6 January 2011\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Howard K. Stern/Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's been a nightmare. From the day Daniel died, it's been virtually just a nightmare. It's gone from one battle to the next.\" \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 6 January 2011\u003cbr/\u003e8. Medium shot Stern talking to reporters at Los Angeles courthouse\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eBeverly Hills, California, 6 January 2011\u003cbr/\u003e9.  SOUNDBITE (English) Howard K. Stern/Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend:\u003cbr/\u003e\"From the criminal law standpoint, which I had no experience with before, I feel like prosecutors, at least some prosecutors, want to win at all costs. And it's not about truth, it's about convictions.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10.  Wide shot, Stern sitting on couch alone \u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Howard K. Stern/Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend, in response to Deutsch's question about Danielynn:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I do. I see her. Through the trial I obviously didn't see her much. But I see her and she just reminds me of her mother. She's just a junior version of Anna. And Larry's done a spectacular job because she's the happiest girl you're ever going to see.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Reporter: How old is she now?\") \u003cbr/\u003e\"She's a little over 4. It's crazy, absolutely crazy - talking, the things she says, the expressions she makes reminds me so much of her mom.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: New York, April 7, 2004\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various of Anna Nicole Smith at book launch\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eBeverly Hills, California, 6 January 2011\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Howard K. Stern/Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I haven't really had a chance to mourn, haven't had a chance to grieve. It's been one fight after the next. It took a long time before I was even able to think coherently for long periods of time without being depressed. And wondering why all of this stuff was happening, knowing the lies that are being said. People who used to be friends now just lying for money.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide shot Howard K. Stern with his two attorneys \u003cbr/\u003eAfter losing Anna Nicole Smith and then a court battle over her estate, Howard K. Stern says a judge's dismissal of convictions in a prescription drug case vindicates both him and the late Playboy model.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I loved Anna and I cared for her so much. I have no regrets,\" Stern told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday (6 JAN 2011), hours after the court reversed his two conspiracy convictions for using his name on prescriptions for Smith.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The regrets I have are for what people caused afterward,\" he said, referring to multiple legal complications which arose after Smith died of a drug overdose in Florida in February, 2007.\u003cbr/\u003eThe most agonizing postscript, he said, was the prescription drug abuse charges filed in Los Angeles against Stern, Smith's psychiatrist Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, Smith's general physician. \u003cbr/\u003eHe called the months of trial a nightmare.\u003cbr/\u003eProsecutors had argued that Smith was an addict, and the defendants were feeding her addiction rather than providing prescription drugs for any legitimate medical purpose.\u003cbr/\u003eBut after a long and costly prosecution, Superior Court Judge Robert Perry threw out conspiracy convictions against Stern and Eroshevich on Thursday, allowing one charge against her to remain but reducing it to a misdemeanor. \u003cbr/\u003eThe jury had already acquitted Kapoor of all charges against him.\u003cbr/\u003eThe judge concluded that Smith was not an addict by legal definition but was rather a woman seeking relief from chronic pain. He said the jury verdicts suggested they agreed.\u003cbr/\u003ePerry said Stern clearly did not intend to violate the law when he used his name on drug prescriptions for Smith. \u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley criticized the judge's decision, saying it \"denigrates the substantial investigative efforts conducted by the state Department of Justice and the medical board.\" \u003cbr/\u003eHe said he would appeal.\u003cbr/\u003eStern attorney Steve Sadow said his strongest and most unusual defense theme was love.\u003cbr/\u003eHe told jurors that Smith was the love of Stern's life and he would never have done anything to hurt her.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said prosecutors at times portrayed Stern as a Svengali trying to control Smith for money, a claim he said was false.\u003cbr/\u003eAt 41, Stern said he has not had time to evaluate his future or to mourn for his lost love.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said a bright light in his life is Smith's daughter, Dannielynn, who he once thought was his. \u003cbr/\u003eShe is being raised by her father, photographer Larry Birkhead.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said he and Birkhead, who once fought in court, are now working together on Smith's estate and Birkhead will probably become its sole administrator.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said he will have visits with Dannielynn and hopes to tell her about her mother.\u003cbr/\u003e\"She just reminds me of her mom,\" he said of the 4-year-old child. \"She's a junior version of Anna. 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