Allan Arnold Cease

hired b/c a friend of a friend knew him & so we got discount price when I had my first DWI. He wouldn't really ever answer my emails & when I would see him in court he was very short with me, but if my parent was there he would talk to them in detail. Yes I gave him permission to speak with them but ...that doesn't mean that he should ignore half the questions I would have. When my probation was over I told myself I would never get behind the wheel again after drinking. I happen to suffer from a psychological illnesses & so some of my medications ,one in particular was high dosage of Ambien,if taken & I don't go to sleep like I should, I may end up doing something I don't remember. A month or so after I got off I went out with friends for their 21st birthday,& I swore to my parents my car would stay at their apartment & I wouldn't get into it until the next day when I was sober. Things didn't go as planned & my friends who were the good friends to have b/c they watch your back so you don't get into any trouble, but for some reason decided to let me take my car to pick up a special friend at the end of the night b/c they didn't want to get them, & if they had just done what they usually do say something like,"hey are you sure you want to drive when you just got off probation a month ago?", & I would have snapped into reality & realized they're right & would tell my other friend I couldn't drive to them.I get to my friends safely but we end getting into an emotional talk that really hurt feelings. The last thing I remember was taking my medication & then lying back down to go to sleep. But next thing I know its 7am or something I'm a cop car wondering what happened to me.Find out I was arrested for DWI second offender & I knew b/c of how this lawyer talked to me that if I mess up again it would be 10*worse. I felt extremely suicidal & an embarrassment to my family. I didn't want to go through all the court bs & fines that I just completed & knowing this time it would be worse, especially since I had just got off for my first one. When my parents bailed me out they knew I was feeling suicidal & took every kind of pill bottle that was in my room so I wouldn't do something I would regret. A day later 1 of my parents are gone for the & the other who left all my prescribed meds on their bathroom counter was busy outside & didn't even notice that I went & took all my meds & filled the bottles with Melatonin. I put on one of my favorite movies & took everything. I wrote a note it wasn't out in plain sight but I knew it would be found. I told my family I was doing them a favor. Since I'm writing this you can figure out I wasn't successful. I was told if my parent who was home had waited to come check on me 10 mins. after they did I would have been dead. When I woke up in the hospital I was upset & angry. I yelled asking why they just couldn't let me die. I went to rehab got help, changed up my meds. & my psychiatrist, was extremely lucky to still have my job, & having a fresh start in a new city. We found out that there were MANY MANY!! technicalities in my case which should have made it DISMISSED, but for some reason Mr. Cease didn't want to I guess acknowledge this to the judge b/C he told us all of this & I'm sitting there wondering why is it still open?? I wasn't drunk when I got pulled over. It had been at least 3-4 hrs. after drinking. But my medication, Ambien, which is known for causing people to do things they don't remember, & was exactly what happened to me. Mr. Cease didn't really press this important EVIDENCE to the judge & I'm still wondering why he didn't. Finally a deal which took about 6 months to be made.I had to agree to 2yrs probation. He didn't do what he was paid to do & I'm trying now to get it off.