Category: Forensic Toxicology
Eleven Scientists, Two Years, and Unanswered Questions
A string of deaths and disappearances among America’s most sensitive aerospace and nuclear researchers has triggered a federal investigation — and raised questions that demand more than silence.
Unusual Sex Laws: What the Statutes Actually Say
Unusual Statutes Governing Intimate Conduct and Personal Freedoms
BAC and Impaired-Driving Laws: A State-by-State Overview
BAC presumption statutes that codify evidentiary presumptions tied to the 0.05% BAC threshold
Urine vs. Blood Drug Results: Why the Numbers Are Not Interchangeable
Why urine and blood drug concentrations answer different questions and cannot ordinarily be converted into each other or treated as automatic proof of impairment.
Commission on Judicial Performance Excerpts Concerning Judge Draper
Read excerpts from Commission on Judicial Performance materials concerning Judge Robert S. Draper, with access to the source record and related commentary.
Counsel’s Effective Answer to a Trial Challenge
[When] asked whether the FBI’s decision to test hair for cocaine demonstrates such tests are generally accepted as being reliable in the scientific community, Okorocha disagreed, stating the FBI uses other procedures, such as polygraph, which are not generally accepted as reliable. Imperial Cty.…
When Courts Quote Expert-Witness Analysis
Plaintiffs called Okorie Okorocha, a forensic toxicologist and lawyer, to testify to the testing performed on the fluid samples taken from Andrade’s body. He rendered opinions on both the methamphetamine and alcohol testing and what he viewed as flaws in the resulting evidence.
Ranger Wiens and Tanya Ortega: Trial-Performance Commentary
In this case, Kayleigh McCall v. Coast Line Distributing, Inc. and Paul Anthony Ceja In San Luis Obispo County Court, the jury grants punitive damages to the employer due to the truck driver’s illicit drug use; $2.1 million. Plaintiff Kayleigh McCall experienced a moderate traumatic brain injury…
Trevor Quirk v. Lewis Brisbois: Trial Commentary
Plaintiff Counsel The amazing Trevor Quirk who can be contacted as detailed below:
Investigators at Counsel Table in Criminal Trials
While a witness is under examination, the magistrate shall, upon motion of either party, exclude all potential and actual witness who have not been examined.
Field Sobriety Test Statistics and Admissibility
Field Sobriety Test statistics and other statistics/averages/ranges for the hypothetical generality of the populace, as distinguished from matters provable as to the individual defendant, infect the record with a fatal error. In People v. Wilson (2019) 33 Cal.App.5th 559 it was held that it was…
California Ethics Opinion Says No to Law-Firm Parties; Judge Byrdsong Is Pictured Attending Them
California Formal Opinion 2023-024 says judges should not attend complimentary private law-firm celebrations because they create an appearance of special influence. This post presents photographs described as showing Judge Rupert Byrdsong at such events.
