Kim Kollmeyer • January 28, 2026

Not Guilty Chapter 1 | Example Scenario: Introducing Alexis and Braxton

THE CUTE LITTLE SPORTS CAR was red, but you couldn’t tell in the dark. She was out party-hopping, and she was in a fabulous humor. Her boyfriend was kind of passed out in the passenger seat. The radio was blaring while she chattered into her cellphone, laughing over whatever was being said on the other end. She took over steering with her knee while quickly pecking out a response to a text. The boyfriend leaned over and started gagging, and the car jerked from side to side in the lane while she screamed at him for puking in her car. She noticed flashing lights in the distance behind her. She sped up. The lights sped up. She was going approximately 80 in a 55. She skidded around a bend in the road, almost lost control, over compensated, slammed on the brakes, wove from one side to the other, spun around, and stopped hard. She was lucky she hadn’t flipped the car. As the officer approached, with a giggle, she took off again . . . and promptly crashed into a ditch. More cop cars started arriving. They caught her on dash cam staggering and stumbling while trying to walk; a bottle fell out of the car behind her. The officers were laughing in the background. She argued and cussed at them while they put the cuffs on her. In the police car, the officer asked her to recite the alphabet, from G to S without singing. “A, B, C, wait. Where did you say to start? D, E, F. Oh, G. A, B, C, wait. G, H, I, L, M, O, this is dumb, why are you doing this to me? Just . . . fine! G, H, I, J, L, M, O, P, she paused, R, S, T, U, V, X, Y, wait, did you tell me to stop somewhere? Where did you tell me to stop? I think I’m going to throw up. OMG, take the stupid cuffs off, like, I’m going to puke…!” The preliminary field sobriety test read 0.12, significantly over the legal limit. She jabbered the whole way to the jail, while the cop casually asked what she had been doing that evening. She told him all about the party . . . Parties. Where she had been, how much she might have had to drink, periodically arguing with him, vomiting, cussing him out, and finally leaning slumped in the side of the car. She had forgotten her purse somewhere along the way that night, and she conveniently gave them the wrong name. We are going to call our friend Alexis.

Some Potential Offenses for Alexis:
  • Class B Misdemeanor, Speeding, over 25 over.
  • Class B Misdemeanor, Use of Electronic Communication Device (Texting) While Driving, Causing Serious Physical Injury to Another.
  • Class B Misdemeanor, Driving While Intoxicated.
  • Class B Misdemeanor, Identity Theft.
  • Class A Misdemeanor, Careless and Imprudent Driving.
  • Infraction, Failure to Wear a Properly Fastened Seatbelt.
  • Class E Felony, Resisting Arrest by Fleeing, Creating a Substantial Risk of Serious Physical Injury.
Alexis’ Additional Potential Consequences
  • Driver’s License Suspension.
Alexis’ boyfriend might have walked away a free man, had he been conscious. Whether he was unconscious because he was passed out, or due to the gash across his face from the accident, was unknown. When they couldn’t rouse him, they called emergency medical services, and they pulled his wallet in an attempt to ID him. That was where they found the first line of cocaine. In the backpack at his feet, the one with his name stitched on the outside, they found two large baggies of cocaine, with several empty bags for packaging and a digital scale, hidden inside an interior pouch. His name was Braxton.

Some Potential Offenses for Braxton:
  • Class D Felony of Possession of a Controlled substance (for the stuff in his wallet).
  • Class D Felony of Possession of a Controlled substance (for the stuff in his bag).
  • Class C Felony Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (the baggies and the scale).
  • Class C Felony of Delivery of a Controlled Substance (due to the large quantity in his bag, and the packaging materials).
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