City Of Kent v. Joanne Kandler

¶1 After Joanne Kandler’s arrest for driving under the influence of marijuana, an officer asked Kandler to consent to a blood test. She agreed. Kandler later sought to suppress the blood test evidence on the grounds that the officer did not read her the warnings mandated by the implied consent statute, RCW 46.20.308, before obtaining her consent. But the implied consent statute in effect at the time of Kandler’s arrest no longer mandated that the warnings be given before asking a driver to consent to a blood test. We affirm the admissibility of the evidence.

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¶2 In January 2015, Kandler…