A woman whose driving killed a friend in a one-car crash in Pupu­kea more than two years ago pleaded guilty in state court Thursday to negligent homicide and driving without a license.

Brittany Poole, 25, faces a maximum 10-year prison term for negligent homicide and a 30-day jail term for driving without a license at sentencing in August. She entered her guilty pleas without the benefit of a deal with the prosecutor.

Unique Murry, 21, of Aiea died Nov. 21, 2010, when he was ejected from the back seat of the car Poole was driving.

"She knows she made a series of very poor choices," said Steven Nichols, Poole’s lawyer. "Unique was her friend, a very dear friend, and she’s dealing with that every day."

The prosecutor said Poole was speeding, drinking beer and smoking marijuana while driving around the island with four passengers. She lost control of the car while arguing with her front-seat passenger about her speeding, the prosecutor said.

Police said the car crossed the centerline of Kame­ha­meha Highway, hit a rock wall, a parked vehicle and two fences, went airborne and flipped over before slamming into a carport. Poole’s blood alcohol content was 0.09; police estimated her car was traveling 69 to 70 mph when it crashed in a 25 mph zone.

The legal threshold for drunken driving is 0.08.

An Oahu grand jury indicted Poole in August 2011 on charges of negligent homicide and driving without a license.

Police were not able to locate Poole to arrest her on the charges until last September.

Nichols said Poole was homeless at the time and didn’t know she had been charged and that police were looking for her. He said since her arrest, Poole has checked herself into a two-year residential substance abuse treatment program.

Poole has a July 2009 DUI conviction, four speeding convictions in 2009 and 2010 — including one for driving 22 mph over the speed limit and another for driving 21 mph over the speed limit — and convictions in 2010 for driving without a license and for driving with an instructional permit unaccompanied by a licensed driver, according to state court records. She had another charge of driving without a license pending at the time of the 2010 crash.

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Correction: The last name of Unique Murry was misspelled in an earlier version of this story.