State v. Morales

¶61 (concurring in part, dissenting in part) — Jose Matilde Morales appeals his vehicular assault and driving under the influence convictions. I would hold that Morales’s vehicular assault conviction, on the basis of either driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or driving in a reckless manner, cannot stand. Specifically, the State failed to prove that it advised Morales in Spanish of the special evidentiary warnings required by RCW 46.20.308(2); thus the trial court should not have admitted the results of his involuntary blood test. But I would affirm Morales’s vehicular assault…