The following is page 2 of a selected transcript from the DUI Radio show with Pasadena DUI attorney Okorie Okorocha.

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Nine dangerous ways equine enthusiasts expose themselves to lawsuits.  So there’s keeping a vicious or dangerous horse.  If you have a horse that’s dangerous or vicious you absolutely do not have to keep it, okay.

There’s faulty equipment, again, dangerous thing about a horse.  Placing a rider ______ horses.  Yes, Cutmaster.  Have you ever done that?  I mean, this is a California thing.

And by the way, yes, now, everybody should use the right kind of stable.  This is a great commercial.  Okay.  And you always need to speak with an equine specialist, which, I mean, I have one on retainer.  We always keep on one retainer.  What could it hurt, right?

And then some other things is that, number one, go out horsing around and horse-trading.  So that’s really – now, make sure it’s on your insurance.  If you have a homeowner’s liability and you don’t have Hey& Hey as attorneys, you need to have a homeowner’s policy that covers your hose.  And don’t want a trailer or friend’s horse or any things like that.  This is all copyrighted material, by the way, from Hey & Hey Associates.  Whether you're going to name somebody your barn hand or your independent contractor, again, as a factor in horse safety.

So this is an issue that we take very seriously here at Law Talk.  By the way, if anyone does have a question or wants to do some horse trading you can call us up.  Let’s see, where is the phone number.  It is – oh, here’s one.  Can a Binaca spray really show up on a drug – yes, anything with alcohol can.

Let’s see.  Attorney Walter Hackett, Walter says Twitter is only – now, Walter is a loan modification specialist, banking law specialist, all kinds of specialist.  Oh, no, the phone numbers aren’t working.  Our phones aren’t working, guys, so you have to email me.  I’m so sorry.  I don’t know why the phone is not working.

I guess – hold on, let me give it out again so you can try it.  It’s 646-381-4475.  Cutmaster’s going to try calling us.  We do have 18 minutes left.  Cutmaster’s going to try calling it.  And as soon as we get done with the Hey & Hey commercial we’ll talk about that and figure out why it’s not working.  We are going to talk to these people.

Still can’t call, huh?  All right.  So let’s see.  Walter says Twitter is more of a ten-second blog.

By the way, I am trying to respond to these questions online.  I just can’t type or say anything.  Anything.  Again, there’s a YouTube video on CPRSLaw.com, Charles, Paul, Ray, Simon, Lawrence, Apple, Washington, dot com.  CPRSLaw.com, a YouTube video. 

All these things show up.  If you use an inhaler.  If you soy sauce, there’s a demonstration I do in the video where I put soy sauce in my mouth and I blow into a breathalyzer.  It will show up, and they don’t ask you if you were just at Jack in the Box.  If you have food stuck in your teeth, and the food soaks up just a tiny bit of the alcohol that’s in soy sauce or anything like that – we don’t actually know what’s in soy sauce that sets off the machine but it does set off the machine.

Breathalyzer’s actually use the – oh, boy.  Okay.  There’s a new question.  Okay.  The machine is sensitive, and if the chemical it’s testing has an OH group that’s similar to alcohol it possibly can pick it up.  But again, the machine makers will not release the source code, so we don’t know.

I can’t – Cutmaster, you've got to stop holding up signs.  So we don’t know.  But you have food stuck in your teeth and alcohol or some substance that has an OH group stuck in your teeth and you're breathing out, of course you can blow something in the machine with alcohol.  And Binaca does have alcohol in it.  So does some toothpaste with Scope.  Scope does.  A lot of things.  Medications.  I don’t know exactly which one.

Now, okay, you can refuse field sobriety tests, yes.  Refuse field sobriety test and – oh, okay, producer Tammy Devine at Crown City News, she’s telling me that she tried the phone and it’s not working.  Okay.  Well, thank you, Tammy.

Tammy’s our media person over here.  She’s at Crown City News.  Give her a little plug.  I’m trying to get these questions.

Okay, Tammy, I’ll call you.

These questions over here.  What do you think of lawyers that just plead out their clients instead of fighting the case?  They’re scammers, rip-offs, criminals, they should be prosecuted.  They are worse than the people who commit a DUI. 

Okay.  Now, there are sometimes pleading is appropriate.  I have gotten bang deals where a client was 0.25 and before the DUI trial, the prosecutors see me and they really just run really.  I mean, I’m like jury duty to DAs.  They see me and they’ve gotta go, you know.  So I’ve had them fold a lot.  They’re probably listening to this and say we’ll never fold again. 

But it’s been, like, a 0.25 DUI.  It was a second DUI, and they agreed to strike the first DUI, go ahead and just plead my client to the – I don’t know what Walter’s saying.  To go ahead and just plead the person because I’ve pled them when they’ve made – agreed to drop all the charges, make it a first DUI, make it a 0.08, boom, we’re in business.  I’ll take that deal.  But unless you’re making it really good I’m not going to do it. 

And there’s no reason to plead a lot of times because you will get the same – well, okay, let’s just talk about this for a second.  When you go to trial, trial is a constitutional right.  You have the right to a jury trial.  The judge is not supposed to give you a harsher sentence because you chose to go to jury trial. 

Judge Bernie Laforteza in Lancaster Court, yeah, I’m talking to you, you don’t give a higher sentence.  And we have a lawsuit pending on this right now in the U.S. Federal Court.  I have a class action pending against Judge Bernie Laforteza.  Laforteza gives my client 60 days jail.  Luckily she’s a female in L.A. County and got out in ten hours.

By the way, if it’s a female in L.A. County, you always go to trial.  The most accurate BAC test – I am so tangential – is blood test, most accurate.  And that you can have retested.  And when I send it to my lab my lab always finds out that the preservative levels were wrong because the preservative level is pre-put in, and they don’t exactly the right preservative or the right amount of blood that goes in the preservative.

Now, there are bacteria that poop alcohol after they eat blood sugar.  So what you have is blood and more alcohol.  So what you do is you end up with higher blood alcohol levels, so you want to have it tested.  Also there’s a thing known as salting out because the preservative has salts in it, and that changes the BAC drastically.

But, yes, we start with the blood.  Now, if I’m defending a DUI.  Now, first of all, don’t drink and drive.  Please.  Do not.  I gave plenty of ways to avoid this that you’ll never have to do this.  Even if you've had one drink and you’re a 300-pound sumo wrestler.  Okay, Cutmaster is saying 500.  Thank you, Cutmaster, the extra 200 pounds really makes a difference in one drink.  I forgot.