Stamps

I. BACKGROUND

On four occasions in October through December 2012, Stamps was pulled over by the Pittsburg police because her car did not display a license plate. On each occasion she and her car were searched, and on each occasion drugs were discovered. On October 30, 2012, the police discovered two yellow oval tablets with a capital ―V‖ on one side and a white oval tablet with the word ―Watson‖ on its side. The next night, the police again stopped Stamps‘s car, conducted a search, and discovered a methamphetamine pipe and 1.19 grams of a white crystalline substance believed to be methamphetamine. Yet again, on November 1, 2012, they found a bindle of white crystalline substance believed to be methamphetamine, weighing .25 gram, six white oblong pills, one with the words ―Watson‖ and ―853‖ printed on it, and .28 gram of some white chunky substance believed to be cocaine base. On December 16, they found .03 gram of suspected methamphetamine in a plastic baggie in Stamps‘s bra and two pills in her car. One of the pills was yellow with ―853‖ written on it, and the other was a white tablet bearing the words ―Watson 932.‖ Stamps was charged with eight counts of drug possession:…