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Anyone who knows anything about being addicted knows that drugs stay in your urine days, sometimes up to a month, after you use them.
I hope you're talking about marijuana, because that's simply not true with most all the others.

I had not used any intoxicating substance the day of my accident, but there were drugs in my system from almost almost week prior.
So, you were convicted of impaired driving based upon a positive test for marijuana in your urine? NO OTHER evidence of impairment?

I doubt you want to post the details of how the car crashed here, but, I suspect it was determined to be your fault. If so, then impairment made it involuntary manslaughter in VA.

If what you say is TRUE, and it was marijuana in your system, then your defense attorney was a yutz if he was unable to argue that away. If there were other factors leading up to the crash that lead to a presumption of impairment, then I can understand why a jury did not see it that way.

No way to argue the point with a public defender and hard-assed prosecutors. I spent 3 years in PRISON, and have been on probation for 9 years, in and out of county jail for violations, all because I had a car accident that killed my fiancé. I was driving, the accident killed her, and I was charged and been punished ever since for something that I've cried myself to sleep over many nights. So, bluntly, **** anyone who is blatantly ignorant to the injustice and corruption that ruins lives.
I am truly sorry that she died and for the guilt you feel over it. However, you CAN make the choices that will free you. If you have repeatedly violated probation, based upon your previous statements, it seems likely that you have not stopped using drugs of one kind or another. That IS on you. You have the ability to change that trajectory, but apparently you feel that going on the run and becoming a wanted fugitive is a better choice.

A decision by a jury based upon the actions of a poor defense attorney is hardly evidence of "injustice" or "corruption." Incompetence, maybe. Ineffective counsel, perhaps.

However, admittedly, I am jaded. I have pulled far too many dead and dying people from vehicles where drugged and drunk drivers were proclaiming their innocence and how they were railroaded when the facts said otherwise. If you truly were completely sober and had been without drug or drink that horrible day/night, then I am sorry for that. That is in the past. No one can do a darned thing about that at this point. What you CAN do is follow the rules laid out for you and complete whatever program you are probably in, follow the rules, and complete probation. Your failure to comply with those rules is not the fault of anyone but you.