Jeannette was driving her granddaughter home from the doctor's office. Her daughter put the car in gear while Jeannete was outside of the car. The cops said Jeannette was high and a danger. She was NOT GUILTY

Jenette took her granddaughter to her doctor’s appointment. She sees a pain doctor to help her manage her chronic back pain. When she was half a mile from home she stops at the Mobile station at Crescent Lake and m-59. She goes in and purchases a bottle of water leaving her granddaughter in her truck for under 2 minutes. While inside she takes one of her prescribed oxycotin pills. Her granddaughter reaches over and puts the truck in gear causing it to roll forward into a tree. The police are called and of course when they see the oxycotins in her purse they arrest her for operating under the influence with an occupant under sixteen, also known as “child endangerment.” This ticket is usually written under state law because it is a one year misdemeanor. The cop in his generosity wrote it only as a 93 day misdemeanor, he was giving her a break because her husband is a retired cop. I did everything I could to prove to the city attorney that Jenette was innocent. I got a letter from her doctor stating that when he saw her 10 minutes before the incident she was not “high.” I got a copy of the video from the police station where she tells the officer who is booking her that she took the oxycotin in the gas station. This was important because it proved that she never had any oxycotin in her system while driving. On the day of trial the cop pulled me aside and said “if you don’t plead to impaired we are going to dismiss and rewrite the ticket as a one year misdemeanor." Needless to say we were not pleading to impaired.

Two months later we were back in court again, this time with the Oakland County Prosecutor’s office which would typically mean “NO DEALS.” But fortunately the assistant prosecutor after reviewing the file realized that there was a strong likely hood that Jenette was innocent and dismissed the charges