At a motion to be heard by Ontario's highest court, mass killer seeking "fresh evidence" from prosecutors about CAMH forensic psychiatrist Dr. Scott Woodside

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Toronto mass killer Alek Minassian is appealing his 10 murder convictions — and is banking on new controversy over a key Crown witness to deliver him a new trial.

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How enraging that would be if that’s enough to thrust this merciless killer back into the courts.

At a motion to be heard by Ontario’s highest court, Minassian is seeking “fresh evidence” from prosecutors about Dr. Scott Woodside, the prominent CAMH forensic psychiatrist who testified that despite his autism spectrum disorder, the incel killer knew it was morally wrong when he careened down a Yonge St. sidewalk in a rented van in an attempt to kill as many women as possible in his April 2018 van attack.

Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy accepted Woodside’s expert evidence that Minassian can’t be found NCR — or not criminally responsible due to his autism — though she was critical of the psychiatrist’s lack of note-taking during his interview with Minassian.

Since his 2021 testimony, though, Woodside has run into some trouble with the courts.

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