Stuart Shipko testifies in kidnapping case and claims assailant was 'unconscious' when he methodically planned out and researched the crime for 6 months

How much of an embarrassment is Pasadena psychiatrist Stuart Shipko to the profession of psychiatry?

Dr. Stuart Shipko has no training in forensic psychiatry
which may explain why he has a professional reputation
of incompetence among colleagues

Well, if his so-called "forensic work" in psychiatry in the public record is any indication of his character and competence, then not only does he not appear to know what he is talking about as a psychiatrist, but it appears he will sell out his integrity to the highest bidder to try to give credence to any criminal defendant claiming a drug-induced "state of unconsciousness" plea.

Take for example his work in his first criminal case, The People v. Dennis Elliot Shellhouse, from August 2006 in Thousand Oaks, California. Dr. Shipko was brought in by Shellhouse's attorneys in the criminal trial in August of 2006 as a defense expert witness in psychiatry.

On June 7, 2005, Dennis Elliot Shellhouse, 46, traveled from Phenix City, Alabama to Thousand Oaks, California to carry out a kidnap-for-ransom plot on the Burtzloff family, whom at the time were residents of Lake Sherwood in Thousand Oaks.

Shellhouse posed as a courier delivering legal documents to gain entry into the gated community where the Burtzloff residence was. Once inside, he brandished a gun to threaten the victim Jamie Burtzloff, 35, in order to gain entry into her home and then subsequently threatened her housekeeper with his gun.