A Texas woman says she fought a criminal charge for 18 months and spent $30,000 on legal fees. Today, she tells her story.
Evelyn Alicia Rudisill (@homesbyevelynalicia) was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI), a serious offense, in August 2023. The content creator claims, however, that she had only two glasses of wine before her arrest.
According to her, suspicious elements tainted her case. She claims that her blood test result showed an incorrect blood alcohol level and that her arrest was unjustified given the results of the field tests.
“I had a glass of wine… by the pool”
Ms. Rudisill recounts that on August 5, 2023, before her arrest, she was enjoying time with family and friends. She, her neighbor, and their children were spending a day at the pool, which seemed perfectly normal.
“I had a glass of wine with her by the pool. You know, we were watching the kids play. It was a Sunday afternoon just like any other.”
But the situation took a dramatic turn within a matter of hours.
“Around 8:30 p.m., as I was driving home… I was pulled over for driving under the influence, which is a felony,” she says. “It’s a felony because there was a minor in the car.”
At the time, Rudisill was charged with driving while intoxicated as a felony, not with a simple misdemeanor of driving under the influence. People are sometimes charged with this separate offense when there are aggravating circumstances, such as driving with a child in the vehicle. However, Rudisill has consistently referred to her arrest as “driving under the influence of alcohol” throughout her series.
In any case, she asserts that even if she had drunk only one beer, it would constitute a felony since she had a child in her vehicle. “Even without a prior record, it’s a felony. The legal limit doesn’t matter,” she adds.
Field Sobriety Tests
The content creator says she had no idea she was doing anything wrong. In fact, she thought she had been pulled over for speeding.
She recalls that the officer asked her to take a field sobriety test and claims he gave her confusing instructions during the test.
“He had me take… the walk-the-line test. I walked in a straight line. He told me, ‘No, you didn’t put your heel against the toe of your foot.’ ‘Well, you didn’t tell me to put my heel against the toe of my foot. You just told me to walk in a straight line, which I did,’ she recalls.”
He then asked her to follow a laser, but she says his instructions threw her off.
“Then he did the… green laser test [and told me], ‘Hey, follow…,’ which I did. He told me, ‘Look at the laser.’ I looked. He told me, ‘I didn’t tell you to move your head.’ ‘Okay, but you didn’t tell me not to, so you’re not giving clear instructions,’” she explains.
She was arrested
The police reportedly searched her vehicle and found a legally registered firearm, which, at that time, constituted “illegal possession of a firearm.” She was charged with a misdemeanor, which was later dismissed.
“You’re not allowed to carry a gun while driving under the influence,” she explains.
She recounts being placed in the back of a police car and driven to the Williamson County Jail.
During the subsequent proceedings, Rudisill explains that she was released on bail. She hired a defense attorney and claims that, four hours after her arrest, her blood alcohol content was reportedly 0.13 or 0.14, which is well above the legal limit. She maintains that this wasn’t even possible given the amount of alcohol she had consumed.
According to Bowling Green State University, blood alcohol concentration decreases by about 0.015 per hour. She would therefore have had to have a blood alcohol concentration of about 0.19 or 0.20 at the time of her arrest, which she considers impossible.
After the Arrest
After her arrest, she “worked to pay more than $2,000 a month in attorney’s fees.” She explains that she was deeply affected by being charged with a felony, as it impacted her ability to see her family.
She adds that she began to distrust the justice system because she was not offered a plea deal for “months.”
“This is a DUI case. It’s not a murder case. Why weren’t we offered a plea deal after more than six months?” she asks.
Although she has a retained attorney, she explains that she has continued to contact other experts to discuss her case.
Then came a decisive breakthrough
In the sixth part of her series, she recounts contacting a toxicologist and an expert from an independent laboratory. Rudisill explains that she hired the toxicologist to verify the validity of the screening test conducted on the night of her arrest.
At this point, the content creator’s legal team requested an extension to prepare additional evidence. It was then, according to Rudisill, that the officer who had arrested her admitted to having “forgotten” to submit the blood sample for analysis for months. That “forgotten” blood, she says, may have been past its expiration date by the time it was finally analyzed. Rudisill claims they had no other admissible evidence to use in this case.
Ms. Rudisill claims that the police officer involved in her case was eventually fired, although Subplot News was unable to verify this claim.
According to Williamson County court records, Ms. Rudisill’s case was dismissed in 2025. Subsequently, Ms. Rudisill filed a civil lawsuit against the City of Taylor, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), the officer involved in the case, and the lab technician who performed the analysis. Her lawsuit is currently pending.
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Subplot News contacted Williamson County via email and the Williamson County District Attorney’s Office by phone to request comment.
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A Texas woman says she was convicted of drunk driving after having two glasses of wine. You won’t believe the reason why.
