CANADA
The Telegram
Barb Sweet
Published on June 22, 2016
A John Doe left the courtroom this morning, followed by his friend and fellow John Doe, during cross-examination of New York forensic psychologist Alan M. Goldstein in the Mount Cashel civil trial.
The man left quietly and returned after a break, rubbing his face. He told The Telegram outside court he understands the principles of what lawyers do to break down liability, but said “It all gets too much.”
The man, retired from the military, was hearing his file come up in the cross-examination of Goldstein by Chris Blom, who represents the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp. of St. John’s. At the point Doe left the room, Blom had been asking a series of questions in which Goldstein allowed he did no intelligence testing on Doe. Blom had also pointed out none of Doe’s siblings had gone to college or university.
It was part of a line of questions seeming, as a defence strategy, to point the cause of the man’s issues in a direction other than abuse at Mount Cashel, specifically sexual abuse, or to point out a lesser impact on his life of any abuse.
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