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Michigan’s implied consent law rests on a legal fiction: by accepting a Michigan driver’s license, a person is deemed to have consented in advance to a chemical test if lawfully arrested for OWI. But that fictional consent cannot operate as a legitimate exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement until it comes into actual existence. It does so only when the officer reads the prescribed chemical test rights advisement following a lawful arrest, and the driver is given a genuine opportunity to either reaffirm that consent by submitting to the test or withdraw it by refusing. Until that advisement is given, there is no actual consent, only the legal fiction of it, and a fiction alone cannot satisfy the Fourth Amendment.<\/p>\n