What the Largest U.S. Governtment’s Drugged-Driving Study Actually Found
When prosecutors, the press, or a juror’s intuition tell you that “drugs cause crashes,” there is one study they should be made to confront: the 2015 NHTSA case-control study by Richard Compton and Amy Berning, Drug and Alcohol Crash Risk (DOT HS 812 117). It remains the largest, most carefully…
The Kitagawa Balloon Test: What the Inventors and the Earliest Validators Already Knew
By Okorie Okorocha, J.D., M.S., M.S. The Kitagawa balloon test, more precisely the Kitagawa-Wright detector-tube method, issometimes treated in courtrooms and older case files as if it were a scientificallygrounded measurement of blood-alcohol concentration. It is not. The most strikingfeature of the historical record is that the people best positioned…
Why Don’t Microbes Ferment Blood in Living People?
Your veins are full of warm, sugary, nutrient-rich liquid. So why isn’t it bubbling like a beer vat? Here’s a thought that should keep you up at night: your body contains roughly five liters of warm, slightly salty, sugar-and-protein-rich liquid, kept at a steady 37°C. To a microbe, that sounds…
Eleven Scientists. Two Years. No Answers
Law · Science · Forensics The Okorocha Firm Est. El Segundo, CA Tuesday, May 13, 2026 · Opinion & Analysis · National Security Investigative Commentary Eleven Scientists.Two Years.No Answers. A string of deaths and disappearances among America’s most sensitive aerospace and nuclear researchers has triggered a federal investigation — and…
Stop & ID
The Okorocha Firm Law + Science = Forensics · Toxicolawgy.com Know Your Rights Do You Have to Show Police Your ID? Understanding Stop and Identify Laws Your obligation — or lack thereof — to identify yourself to law enforcement depends heavily on where you are and why you were stopped….
Crazy Laws About Sex
Unusual Statutes Governing Intimate Conduct and Personal Freedoms Kentucky & London, Ontario: Kentucky law purportedly prohibits a woman from appearing on a public highway in a bikini unless accompanied by two law enforcement officers or in possession of a defensive weapon. Separately, a municipal ordinance in London, Ontario, is said…
BAC Impaired Driving Statutes
BAC presumption statutes that codify evidentiary presumptions tied to the 0.05% BAC threshold What These Statutes Govern These are chemical test evidentiary presumption statutes—not per se offense statutes (though the two often coexist). They govern what a jury or fact-finder is presumed to conclude based solely on a defendant’s BAC…
Lack of Correlation Between Urine Drug Levels, Blood Drug Levels, and Impairment
Lack of Correlation Between Urine Drug Levels, Blood Drug Levels, and Impairment Introduction In objectively quantifying drug-induced impairment, there is critical distinction between mere presence of a substance and its psychoactive effect on an individual’s functional capacity (Compton et al., 2009). Specifically, while drug concentrations in biological samples can confirm…
Misconduct of Judge Robert S. Draper (Part two)-“You better be able to f*** better than you can type.” Yes, he actually said it!
This is a discussion that Judge Draper attempted to force upon a female African-American attorney with 40 years of experience: Judge Draper: And I use the term that my wife says is not politically acceptable. I think they are politically acceptable because I use terms like “coal black” and “light…
Misconduct of Judge Robert S. Draper (Part one)
Judge Robert S. Draper presently presides over Dept. V of the Los Angeles County Santa Monica Courthouse. He has some serious misconduct issues. Here is the NOTICE OF FORMAL PROCEEDINGS from the Commission on Judicial Performance–The entity that is supposed to regulate judges. This is what his honor turned in…
Talk about a nice answer to a challenge by Counsel!
[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. Dep’t of Soc. Servs. v. J.M. (In re…
