Latest Wins
Non-Convictions in Criminal Cases
- February 17, 2023: San Diego, California, attorneys Colleen Cusack and Thomas Matthews overturned a flawed rape conviction with serious toxicological issues.
- March 24, 2023: Los Angeles, California, Deputy Public Defender Paul Adkins methamphetamine DUI Not Guilty/Acquittal x 2!
- May 4, 2023: Jared Thompson of Humphrey & Thompson, LLP, Alcohol DUI NOT Guilty/Acquittal x 2!
- May 9, 2023: San Diego Deputy Public Defender Peter Pyun with the alcohol DUI NOT GUILTY verdict x 2!
- May 31 2023: Attorney Dr. Chris Desalva after working with Okorie Okorocha as an expert in the preliminary hearing, the charges were dropped from homicide to a misdemeanor.
- June 14, 2023: Napa, California Deputy Public Defender Megan Havstad earns an acquittal in a marijuana DUI.
- July 6, 2023: Chris Zander wins a DRUG DUI in Orange County.
- July 7, 2023: Ventura, California, Deputy Public Defender Gerardo Arias Fentanyl DUI hung jury and case dismissed!
- July 19, 2023: Los Angeles, California, Deputy Public Defender Sierra Marcelius methamphetamine DUI Not Guilty/Acquittal!
- August 10, 2023: Bryce Armendariz of the Zulu Ali, LLP, alcohol DUI Not Guilty/Acquittal x 2!
- August 30, 2023: Compton, CA attorney Juliette Robinson earned a hung jury in a DUI murder case.
- September 26, 2023: Los Ángeles, CA L.A. Deputy Public Defender Chris Cornell earned a hung jury in an alleged 0.15 BAC with an at-fault car accident where the police claimed the client was too drunk to do field sobriety tests.
- October 4, 2023: Napa County Deputy Public Defender Megan Havstad earned a second DUID (THC) Acquittal in 3 months. The jury was only out 30 minutes!
- October 20, 2023: Los Angeles County Deputy Public Defender Luke Rodriguez earned an Acquittal in 0.139 alleged BAC case with fermented blood and a substandard government laboratory practices.
- October 20, 2023: Jesse Arana earned a hung jury in a DUI case at the Fullerton, California (Orange County) courthouse.
- January 18, 2024: City of Colusa, in Colusa county, California, attorney Brandon Williams got a 2 hour jury verdict of NOT GUILTY in a THC DUI case that the government mis-thought was a slam dunk with expert witness Okorie Okorocha.
- January 26, 2024: Sacramento, California, attorney Okorie Okorocha received a dismissal of a resisting arrest charge and a robbery strike reduced to a misdemeanor for a disabled child in special education classes.
- February 9, 2024: Riverside County, California, attorney Leah Kisner a hung jury in a murder case, and the final jury poll was 8 to 4 for NOT GUILTY. Okorie Okorocha played a very minor role as her Toxicology Expert Witness, compared to Leah slugging it out for a month-long trial.
- May 20, 2024: Monterey, California, attorney Phil Crawford hangs a jury in a DUI case with enhancements.
- June 4, 2024: Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Public Defender Joseph Vaysman smashes the prosecution’s flawed evidence in an alleged high BAC case.
- June 18, 2024: Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Public Defender Joseph Vaysman smashes the prosecution’s flawed evidence again in an alleged high BAC case.
- July 1, 2024: Santa Cruz, California, Phil Crawford smashes the prosecution’s flawed evidence again in an alleged high BAC case.
- November 1, 2024: Los Angeles, California, Joseph Vaysman smashes the prosecution’s junk science yet again in an alleged high BAC case.
- November 18, 2024: Los Angeles, California, Lauren Davis smashes the prosecution’s junk science in an alleged 0.19 breath BAC case that ends in a hung jury. The case was dismissed the next day.
- December 30, 2024: Los Angeles, California, Joseph Vaysman smashes the prosecution’s junk science in an alleged 0.22 BAC case that ends in a hung jury. Los Angeles uses some of the most substandard laboratory instruments in the country and has lab techs pretending to be toxicology experts.
- January 31, 2025: U.S. v. Williams, Military Court Martial, U.S. v. Williams, Super Attorney Aaron Meyer gets the DUI acquittal!
- January 17, 2025: Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Public Defender Jessica Gomez wins a NOT GUILTY X 2 in a DUI case that should have never been even filed and was a complete abuse of prosecutorial discretion.
- January 21, 2025: Mark Khalaf hangs a 0.16 breath alcohol case by attacking the junk science
- January 21, 2025: Joseph Vaysman shows up and the government drop the charges on alleged 0.24 BAC and converted the case to a traffic ticket!
- February 14, 2025: The Los Angeles Public Defenders are on a roll so far in February 2025. We are only halfway through the month, yet the following cases were dismissed before trial. The Los Angeles Public Defenders consistently explain the flaws in the substandard forensic work performed by government crime labs in Los Angeles County. These following are just the cases from this month that we reviewed. There are certainly for more than we ever see:
- Joseph “The Boogeyman” Vaysman gets a dismissal on an alleged 0.19 Breath case.
- Joseph “The Boogeyman” Vaysman gets a dismissal on an alleged 0.25 Blood Case.
- Aracely Abarca gets a dismissal of an alleged 0.20 BAC.
- Celebre Fouka-Nganga gets a dismissal in a case that was the government thought they had locked down.
- Michelle Pujol gets a dismissal in a case that was the government thought they had locked down.
Civil Case Wins
- June 27, 2023: attorney Okorie Okorocha confidentially settles a complicated employment case against a Fortune 500 corp.
- August 31, 2023: Los Ángeles, CA, Attorneys Jonathan Douglas and Jason Fowler verdict of $6.8 million.
- September 22, 2023: Los Ángeles, CA, Attorneys Rex Parris and Jason Alex Wheeler verdict of $22 million.
- December 4, 2023: Los Angeles Superior Court, attorney Okorie Okorocha gets a judgment against his client for over $1.3 million tossed out.
- January 17, 2024: San Jose, California, attorney Okorie Okorocha confidentially settles a personal injury case that the insurance company refused to pay on.
- January 24, 2024:Los Angeles, California, attorney Okorie Okorocha confidentially settles a complicated employment case against a public entity.
- May 6, 2024: Los Angeles, California, attorney Okorie Okorocha gets a $2 million dollar verdict for a tenant against a landlord for invasion of privacy, the defendant offered $0.
- July 17, 2024: San Bernardino, Ca., attorney Matthew Geragos with key testimony of Okorie Okorocha smashes Yamaha for $23 million.
- October 4, 2024: San Bernardino, California, a complicated employment law case confidentially settled for $3.5 million
- October 7, 2024: Pasadena, Ca, a $1.1 million dollar judgment was obtained in a personal injury case.
- January 27, 2025: Joseph Younes & Olivier Tallieu snag a $5.7 million win for a deserving client in a very tough case in San Diego Federal Court. The case came down to the toxicological evidence. The Plaintiff’s attorneys with good sense chose Okorie Okorocha, M.S., M.S., ESQ., who has actual formal education in pharmacology and toxicology. He also has formal education in forensic analysis in many matrices, as well as the interpretation. The Defense attorneys blew it big time by hiring Ed Barley who feigns expertise in forensic toxicology. For more about him, click here: Ed Barley
