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· 6/29/1989

State v. Bartels

Citations

  • 774 P.2d 1183
  • 112 Wash. 2d 882

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • suppressing indigent defendants’ test results where officers warned that they had right to have qualified person of their choosing administer additional blood test “at your own expense”
  • granting relief only to indigent defendants because they were the only ones who might have been prejudiced by inaccurate warning about obtaining additional test '\at your own expense'\
  • adding misleading language about the right to additional testing \at your own expense\ to \an otherwise proper informed consent warning\ invalidated warning, but only as to indigent defendants who are the group most likely to be adversely affected
  • “the statutory requirement demonstrates an important protection of the subject’s right to fundamental fairness which is built into our implied consent procedure”
  • \the statutory requirement demonstrates an important protection of the subject's right to fundamental fairness which is built into our implied consent procedure\
  • suppression of test results required only for defendants who were part of group misled by erroneous warnings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Callow, Utter, Brachtenbach, Dolliver, Dore, Pearson, Andersen, Durham, Smith

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