Okorie Okorocha, J.D., M.S., M.S. • Attorney • Forensic Toxicologist • Expert Witness
Serious representation when medicine, drugs, alcohol, toxicology, or complex scientific evidence can determine the outcome.
When the case depends on the science, your lawyer should understand the science.
Forensic toxicology expert witness
Drug and alcohol evidence can appear definitive while leaving critical scientific questions unresolved. Forensic-toxicology analysis may address specimen integrity, analytical methodology, pharmacology, claimed impairment, measurement uncertainty, laboratory limitations, and whether the stated conclusion follows from the available data.
Where science meets the courtroom
Drug and alcohol evidence can look definitive while leaving critical questions unanswered. Analysis may require review of specimen integrity, analytical methodology, pharmacology, impairment, measurement uncertainty, laboratory limitations, and whether the conclusion actually follows from the data.
Serious-felony matters
The criminal-defense practice is limited to serious felony matters, including murder or manslaughter, sex-crime, and white-collar allegations. Forensic, toxicological, medical, and other scientific evidence is evaluated when relevant.
Civil representation
Personal injury, wrongful death, catastrophic injury, employment, and civil-rights matters can turn on medical causation, toxicology, drug or alcohol evidence, laboratory findings, and competing expert opinions.
Board and State Bar matters
Defense of attorneys, physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and other California licensees facing complaints, investigations, Accusations, disciplinary hearings, probation, or reinstatement.
Science-backed litigation resources
Use the Evidence Library for focused technical topics, ForensicToxicology.com for broader educational and research material, and The Okorocha Firm for representation, consultation, and expert-witness retention.
For expert-witness consultation or legal representation involving complex scientific evidence, call (424) 363-3347.
Primary-source document: Judge Robert S. Draper’s verified answer to the California Commission on Judicial Performance’s Notice of Formal Proceedings in Inquiry No. 212. The answer was filed on February 4, 2026. In it, Judge Draper denies violating the judicial canons cited by the Commission, disputes the Commission’s characterization of several…
Read Article: Judge Robert S. Draper’s Verified Answer in CJP Inquiry No. 212
Age-related balance research helps frame evidence review, but population averages do not diagnose impairment or establish why one person swayed.
Read Article: Age, Balance, and Field-Sobriety Evidence: What Population Research Can Show
A 500 µg/L mitragynine result in a survived cardiac arrest illustrates why concentration, treatment, specimen timing, and alternative causes matter.
Read Article: Kratom Cardiac Arrest and the Limits of a Mitragynine Blood Level