People v. Wiley CA3

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

Because the matter was resolved by plea, our statement of facts is taken from the probation officer’s report. On December 21, 2013, a Red Bluff Police Officer arrived at the location of a noninjury accident. He contacted defendant who told him she had been driving westbound on Antelope Boulevard when she ran into the back of a man’s pickup truck. Her friend’s nine-year-old daughter was her passenger at the time of the collision. She told the officer that she did not see the truck and did not know if her traffic signal was red or green. The officer noticed that defendant was under the influence of a drug. He asked when she last had used methamphetamine, and she said, “three days ago.” She said she had smoked an $80 bag. The officer asked if she had felt the effect of the drugs. She replied, “ ‘[w]ell, I didn’t think so.’ ” The officer searched defendant’s purse and found 17 syringes, two grams of methamphetamine, 10 hydrocodone pills, 19 methadone pills, and a glass smoking pipe. Defendant planned to sell or give away the pills. In further conversation with the officer, defendant said she had smoked a “bowl” of methamphetamine three hours before the…