Anna Green Story

Timeline/Slideshow
(Linked to sections listed below. Date, event, short explanation.

Intro
(introduction of Green. Mention Mason. Mention DUI. Mention current circumstances.)

Anna Green is a frank and candid in discussing the events of her mistake. An ex-classmate of mine during my brief and unfortunate time at George Mason University, Green persevered where I quit, and finished her degree. [quote- Mason blows.] We kept in touch, unlike almost everyone else I went to college with. On Oct. 8, 2015, while driving back from a bar after work at 2am, she was arrested by an officer of the Loudon County Police Department, administered a blood test for blood alcohol, and charged with driving under the influence, assaulting a police officer, refusal to blow (into a breathalyzer), failure to dim high beams, and destruction of a monument. She was sentenced to a fine, community service, and time in prison.

Circumstances of DUI
(Graduate. Work at Belvoir. Work at restaurants. Drinking. Quitting. Two weeks notice)

Attending GMU while studying for bachelor’s of science in psychology, Green graduated in 2014, nearly 6 years after we began school. Working primarily in restaurants after her graduation, with a stint at Ft. Belvoir working at the [requires clarification.] After leaving that job, Green worked primarily at one job, waiting tables full time at [requires clarification.] During that time, Green, disliking the workload and lack of free time, began drinking before and during work, concealing whiskey in 5 Hour Energy containers. [quote- drinking meant better tips, happiness, being better liked.]

Pull Quote- During the Arrest
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Oct. 8
(Drinking. Drugs. Driving. Arrest. Loudon County. Protest. Hospital. Drunk Tank)

After a confrontation with a lower level manager led to an agreement between Green and the upper management that she wouldn’t be fired, but would submit her two weeks notice, Green began working consecutive doubles- a day where the service industry personnel works both the morning and evening shift. Such work often runs to more than 14 hours, and if it’s considered lucrative, it’s also considered grueling. With four days before the end of her time at the restaurant, Green joined coworkers at a bar, having more than 6 drinks, in addition to a number of prescribed antidepressants and stress medications.

After the bar closed, Green began driving the thirty minutes back to Chantilly, where she lived. [quote- don’t remember leaving, don’t remember driving.] She was arrested by an officer of the Loudon County PD at approximately 2am on the morning of the Oct. 9, 2015.

Green recounts the bits and pieces that makes sense. An arrest. Her refusal to submit to a field sobriety exam, before being taken to the police department. After continuing to refuse to submit to a breathalyzer, Green was taken to the hospital for a blood draw, which she complied with after she was informed that they had a letter from the magistrate. She had a BAC of .24. On the way back, Green was stubborn about re entering the cop car, where the police officer alleges she kicked him the chest. She says no such thing happened. She was put into the drunk tank, and released at 4.30 that afternoon.

Low Ebb
(Week of misery. Sleeping. Crying. New Job.)

Green says she spent the rest of the weekend sleeping and crying, before going and getting a new job at a different restaurant. She did not mention her incipient DUI during the interview.

Pull Quote- The low ebb between arrest and prison
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Legal Proceedings
(sentencing, plea bargain)

Life in the meantime
(6 pack, bad job, getting wasted)

The new job also sucked. Green mostly quit drinking. The plea bargain reduced her prison time from what it could have been. She was sentenced on Feb. 12, 2016, to 25 days in prison, of which, by Virginia’s way of doing things, she would serve approximately half. Her sentence would be served in consecutive weekends for 6 weeks. On the 13th, she attended a house party and got very drunk, 8 days before her Feb. 21, 2016 date of incarceration. She was fired from her job on the 15th, but didn’t terribly mind. It was a job she held almost entirely while she was under the cloud of her oncoming DUI [quote- fuck that job.]

Pull Quote- Jail blows
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Jail
(sucks, the crazy girl, the cellmate,)

Jail was awful. First weekend was the worst, with her uncertainty and unfamiliarity- never been to jail before. She reported at 7pm on Friday, and would be released at 7pm on Sunday each weekend. The food was uniformly awful. She kept track of the passage of time by watching the shift changes by standing on her bench and looking over the edges of the covering of the cell window. Her frequent cellmate was from Baltimore, and was doing nearly twice as long for switching the tags on the [store name] where she worked. There was a lady on the second or third weekend who was on some sort of bad hallucinogenic trip and escaped from her cell briefly. The best thing to do was to sleep. Green said she’d do her best to exhaust herself during the week before going in for the weekend and pass as much of the time asleep as possible.

Afterwards
(moving home, no plans for the future, needed to learn)

Pull Quote- Things are better now. This was necessary.
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Conclusion
(DUIs are bad?)

Green moved home after she was released from prison for the last time on the 20th of March. The cost of her arrest, the fines, the loss of work, all meant that staying in her apartment was an untenable position. She’s still living there, figuring out without success what to do next, working with her mom’s cleaning company. She doesn’t particularly regret it- [quote- taught me that I could survive.] Says it needed to happen- to curve her self destructive tendencies.

Need

More interviews saying shit blew/blows. Mom, brother.
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Tie it together.
Estimated completion, Saturday morning