Allen v. Department of Licensing

¶1 Warnings given to a driver of a motor vehicle under Washington’s implied consent statute may be neither inaccurate nor misleading.1 The warnings must permit a person of “ ‘normal intelligence to understand the consequences of his or her actions.’ ”2 Here, Jesse Allen claims that the implied consent warnings that he received after his arrest for driving under the influence (DUI) misled him about the length of time his commercial driver’s license (CDL) would be disqualified and that it did so to his prejudice. Because the warnings in this case were neither inaccurate nor misleading, we…