Opinion ID: 6331515
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Heading: Timing of Request for a Blood Draw

Text: [¶35] Although the court concluded that the trooper’s casual return to the room to ask for a blood draw after having parted ways with Croteau amounted to misrepresentation, the facts found by the court reveal no factual or legal misrepresentation. Rather, the findings, supported by the interview 19 recording, make clear that Croteau was willing to submit to testing primarily because he had already, after validly waiving his Miranda rights, confessed to taking medications before driving. See Garcia-Torres v. State, 949 N.E.2d 1229, 1237 (Ind. 2011) (affirming a finding of voluntariness when the subject had already “told officers ‘it was his fault’ and said that he ‘just want[ed] to tell the truth’”).