People v. Johnson

CHIEF JUSTICE HARRISON,

specially concurring:

I agree with the result reached by my colleagues. I write separately because I do not share the majority’s view regarding the purpose of the warnings required by the implied-consent statute. My colleagues advance the notion that the warnings have nothing to do with enabling detained motorists to make an informed choice about submitting to police testing, but are instead part of a scheme to help the State extract incriminating evidence of intoxication. In other words, they construe the warnings not as a normal admonition of the sort typically given…