“It is difficult to overstate the seriousness of the court’s findings,” Toronto lawyer Eric Neubauer said.
The professional credibility of one of Ontario’s leading forensic psychiatrists has been called into question by a judge who took the unusual step of refusing to qualify him as an expert, finding him too biased to give evidence.
Nettleton’s criminal record includes robberies and threatening members of the justice system, including a judge. He has also been convicted of assaulting peace officers while in custody. Among them, Bird noted that Woodside mixed up Nettleton’s diagnoses, domestic assault history, alleged gang affiliation and score on a psychopathy test, as well as misrepresenting what happened during the robbery — mistakenly referring to it as a “theft of drugs.”
One section of his report, including an assessment on whether Nettleton meets the criteria for the dangerous offender designation, was “a cut and paste from the N.W. report,” Bird found. As an example, she cited Woodside’s description of the robbery as “putting others at risk of death,” the most “glaring example” of unrelated wording taken from the N.W. case.
“Rather than concede this point, Dr. Woodside searched for a way in which to force a square peg into a round hole,” wrote Bird, who sits in Newmarket.
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