Just as an interesting note...Dr. Watts met with LM between Sept 2012 - Sept 2013. He did not officially become licensed as a forensic psychiatrist until Sept 2013.
He has also met with LM once during the course of this trial, in October 2014. Why would he need to do that?
He had been working at the Pinel Institute for 3 years before volunteering to be the psychiatrist to go over to Berlin to pick up LM, at the request of Dr. Barth in Berlin. Apparently Dr. Barth had a problem releasing LM unless another psychiatrist was there to pick him up. And we all remember his testimony about the 5 star psychiatric resort.
He also made sure to tell LM upon first meeting that anything he said to him would be documented and could be used in the trial. So LM had ample warning that his behaviour was being monitored.
Dr. Watts also spent some time in the beginning glorifying his "teacher" in the US's esteemed cases, Bundy, Yates, Unabomber. So not only did this overachiever volunteer to get involved in this "high profile" case, he also somehow agreed to work with the defense to analyse their client. I suppose he'll chalk this case up on his extensive resume for the next time he testifies as an "expert".
Not bad if he's only been working in the field 5 years and is already being used as an "expert" in high profile criminal trials.
MOO
