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NARRATOR: Next, we're in Pontiac,
Michigan, for the sentencing of Breianna Smart.
The 22-year-old was convicted of fleeing and eluding police,
resisting and obstructing a police officer causing injury,
assault with a deadly weapon, and driving
with a suspended license after she fled a traffic stop.
Now before Judge Hala Jarbou hands down a sentence,
she offers Smart a chance to address the court.
Yes, you-- no, let's back up.
You did.
Your actions were all deliberate.
OK?
This isn't the time to make excuses
or to justify anything you did.
You need to own it.
NARRATOR: What Smart must own up to is this.
She's driving the vehicle making a left turn here.
Behind her, an Auburn Hills police officer runs her plate
and discovers Smart is the registered
driver of the vehicle and that she has a suspended license.
After pulling the car over, he confirms
that Smart is behind the wheel.
NARRATOR: Smart refuses the officer's order to put down
her cell phone and continues talking
to the person on the other end.
NARRATOR: After resisting being handcuffed,
Smart pushes her way back into the vehicle.
The officer then tries to pull her from the car
and Smart attempts to drive off.
With the officer still holding on to her arm,
Smart throws the car in reverse and hits the gas.
Her open door slams into the officer,
pushing him backwards and nearly crushing him between it
and the front of his cruiser.
Luckily for the officer, Smart's car
was brought to a stop when it slams into his car
before he gets pinched in between.
Smart fled the scene and was arrested later that night.
The officer was treated for minor injuries at the hospital
and released.
Now at sentencing, it's clear Judge
Jarbou has little patience for Smart's disregard for the law.
What you did was deliberate.
You not only rammed into that officer,
you rammed into his vehicle, and then you took off.
The only thing that you were concerned about was yourself
and getting out of that situation.
This is my first time in trouble.
And I understand that I made a bad choice.
I do understand--
I do.
I just want to go home with my kids.
I just want to be a good mother to my kids.
You need to grow up.
So you have two young kids, but you are still
acting like you're that age.
The only reason that you are not going to go to prison today
is because you don't have a criminal history.
But you're going to stay in the Oakland County Jail
and there are going to be a slew of conditions.
You're sent to two years probation,
365 days jail, 56 days credit.
NARRATOR: Typically, sentences of under a year
are served at a county jail, rather than state prison.
Smart is also ordered to complete 100 hours of community
service, accept mental health treatment,
and attend an anger management program.
Judge Jarbou also makes it clear that Smart's
behavior will be under the microscope every day
moving forward.
I'm promising you this today.
If you come back on the slightest violation, whatever
that is, if that means that probation department tells you
to show up at 8:30 and you show up at 8:35,
you are going to the Department of Corrections.
You will go to prison.
Do you understand that?