Court Opinion

ID: 9857736
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 15:56:46.863379+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:44:44.555557
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LEVINE, Justice
(specially concurring).
As the scenario developed defendant was in fact arrested without reference to the blood test results and therefore would have lost his driver’s license had he refused to take the blood test. There were therefore no misleading statements by the police officer. Had the police been apprised of the blood test results prior to making the arrest, I would agree with the defendant’s position that his consent was involuntary. In my view, under the “totality of circumstances,” a consent obtained by ruse or deception, would not be voluntary if the defendant establishes he would not have consented but for his having been misled.
Because I find no such misleading statements in this case, I concur.