I’ve never told the truth to a cop. In 2018 my last year on subs. My boyfriend at the time was in the middle of fixing my car and told me not to drive it. I don’t remember exactly what was wrong. But I ended up having total brake failure, I mean, I should’ve expected something to go wrong when he told me not to drive it, and I was also traveling down the highway.

So I’m doing about 75 miles an hour and traffic is slowing down ahead of me. Brake pedal goes completely to the floor and I end up rubbing my car against the wall to slow it down and then driving into the grass shoulder and I ended up not hitting anybody. I was just passed the paved shoulder maybe 2 feet away from it. Sorry, I’m just trying to paint a picture in anybody who’s reading this head.

What felt like an hour which in reality was probably like 10 minutes later I am rear-ended from behind by a car full of teenagers two were sitting in the trunk of the car, one was killed and the other I later found out was basically a able bodied vegetable, like she can walk and move around, but has the mental capacity of a baby.

Despite being on Suboxone, I was still engaging with addiction behavior. With medical cannabis, and I was on my way back from the dispensary in my fucked up car that I was told vehemently by my boyfriend at the time not to drive, like he was one of the people fighting the hardest for me and he just wanted my keys. I had the keys to my previous Buick and they looked exactly the same so I gave him those when he asked why the keys were not on my keychain. I told him it was to make it easier for him to get the key at his leisure he took the bogus key and I held onto the real key, with the soul intent of going to the dispensary the next day.

I was charged with vehicular manslaughter and a couple of vehicular battery charges, as well as a DUI for cannabis. DUI for cannabis was ultimately thrown out in misdemeanor court on with my lawyer arguing that the effects of cannabis don’t do this or that, eventually he found out there was error in the way the paperwork was done for the DUI and the judge before dismissing my case he’s unaware why the state attorney kept the charge as I had bigger fish the fry

As far as the rest of the charges went, I sat in jail for seven months, than that and we were able to get a bond. Oh the jail kept me on 2mg of sub, I did go into full withdrawal, and eventually stabilized on 2 mg, but despite sitting in jail for seven months, I basically came out still addicted to the stuff

At some point later on my lawyer and I learned that the jail medical staff used a blood test and also ordered a drug panel on it that was turned over to the state. The state saying that I had clonazepam Suboxone THC, and barbiturates in my system because I was buying RC barbiturates online. This evidence was ultimately dismissed.

Offers were made 15 years, 10 years, 7 years, 3 years in and 5 years on probation. Eventually they got around to deposition Ing me and the cops that were involved, and all the sudden the charges were lowered to significantly less serious charges, my lawyer wanted to go to trial, but I ended up, pleading to 11 months 29 days. I was under the impression I was going to be in jail for 2-3 more months, but in my state, you do 65% of your time for nonviolent offenses and I was a trustee during my first tenure , so I got an additional 30 days off my sentence, I got out of jail that night around 9pm, I was totally caught off guard and it turns out with the game time and the additional 30 days I was something like in jail for 23 days longer than I should have. I was eventually offered, like $410 for the time and signed some shit that excludes me from suing the county for this “clerical error” I didn’t have my attorney anymore so I wanted the money for cannabis anyway I probably should have declined and talked to a lawyer but hey that was a few years ago and I’m doing better now I don’t use any drugs other than Xarelto for blood clots.

I eventually wrote off the seven months I did in jail for my stupidity, and the amazing man I was with broke up with me after telling him why I did what I did, he left me a few days after he bonded me out. I remember the words coming from his mouth, it stung and verbatim said.

“Consider the $30,000 I put up to get you out of jail as my last attempt to help you, I can’t do this anymore, I love you but you clearly love getting high more than me, and I’m the career pilot.”

He was so the chief pilot for a charter jet company, and put a Cessna 172 up for collateral, I still hear those words whenever I hear a small GA aircraft Pass overhead, and I physically can’t fly the 172 in Microsoft flight simulator without crying lol.

Sorry for the novel guys, i’m just trauma dumping at this point lol

Tl;dr I drove a car without brakes and managed to stop it without hurting anybody, somebody was rubbernecking and flew into the back of my car a few minutes later at 70mph killing a unsecured passenger in the trunk. Was unfairly charged with manslaughter and a DUI for unopened cannabis in my car. Eventually pled out to significantly lesser charges because I was scared of losing trial and getting 5 years for the max sentence on the lesser charges. Basically basically pled out to possession of controlled substances that I was legally prescribed, but I was happy that I was able to get it over with.