Stuart Shipko testifies in nail gun murder trial and claims the killer was 'unconscious' during the crime from Paxil withdrawal, without actually ever evaluating the accused

To understand just how far psychiatrist Stuart Shipko will prostitute his professional reputation as a psychiatrist to pick up a paycheck as a paid expert witness from anyone willing to hire him as a forensic "mental expert," one needs not look much further than Shipko's embarrassing and dishonest work done on behalf of the defense in a trial involving convicted murderer Richard Glen Williams, 53, of Grass Valley, California.

Psychiatrist Dr. Stuart Shipko is a prostitute for hire

to anyone willing to pay him as an expert 'mental expert'

Richard Williams was convicted in November of 2007 by a jury of his peers in a three-week trial in Napa, California of murdering his estranged wife, Hendrika "Hetty" Williams, by first strangling her, then shooting her twice in the head and once in the heart with a high-powered concrete nail gun on October 22, 2005. Williams then turned the nail gun on himself.

The crime took place in the home the estranged couple had once shared on the 10000 block of Alta Street in the sleepy small town of Grass Valley, not too far from the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Nevada County, California.

Hetty Williams was pronounced dead shortly after the shooting, while the accused, Richard Williams, slowly recovered from his self-inflicted abdominal and chest wounds during a month-long stay at Sutter Roseville Medical Center.

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.