Amy M. Rademaker

I am absolutely shocked at the reviews I am reading because that is not how I remember the woman that saved my life. Before Amy came into my life, I was a high school dropout drug dealer that was in-and-out of jail. When I was 19 years old, I made a tragic series of bad choices that landed me look...ing at 3-20 years in prison. She went to bat for me on all fronts. Working with my probation officer to get me into the RIGHT rehab and close out my existing probation sentence before I made my plea. Working with the judge to convince him that I was worth going outside of my mandatory minimum 3 years, and speaking with the Prosecutor to allow me to plea No Contest. I got 3 months with time served and 3 years probation. When I was in rehab and needed permission to go to church, to get baptized, or attend family events - she was there. When I was sentenced on December 21, she worked with the jail to get me out of intake so that I could visit with my mom and dad on Christmas, which changed everything for me to hear my dad say he was proud of me at that turning point in my life. She worked with the jail to get me into the honor camp, so that I could get my GED; which is how I was able to even go to college. She even visited me several times in jail and rehab just to make sure I wasn't screwing around making my life worse. If I had gone to prison, I can't say with any certainty that I would be a drug-free, top of my class - college graduate, pursuing a law degree myself. I'm more confident that I would not be alive right now. Just writing this has me pretty choked up almost in tears because I just can't fathom where I would be today if it wasn't for her. I owe everything that I am today to her work. My family and I paid a decent amount of money, but my life would have been dramatically different if I had not had Amy. You just can't put a price on freedom. You can't put a price on having someone go to bat for you in such a profound life-changing way. I'm absolutely without words to describe my gratitude.