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Opinion Not Injurious
Robertson refused Douglas' request for an inchambers conference. “Dr. Dimitris’ evaluation is not injurious to you in this court,’’ the judge emphasized.
“I'm perfectly sane, your honor. ” the defendant responded.
Dimitris added that he would be glad to deliberate further regarding his conclusions on Douglas' mental state if given statements of others involved.
Douglas volunteered to take the stand on Wednesday to tell Dimitris the truth about his relationship with Marx. “We’ve alreadv heard what he thinks about Mr. Baumgardner’s lies,’’ Douglas added. “Dr. Dimitris has not made an evaluation that is injurious to you in the least...He said you are sane,” repeated the judge.
“I'm looking for some compliments," Douglas countered. “I'm looking for someone to say that I did the right thing...that he deserved to be shot,” the defendant added. maintaining he deserved a medal for shooting Marx.
He acknowledged he has psychological problems but insisted those problems are “based on facts and not on fantasy...Really this trial should be backed up and start all over again.”
Douglas described his situation as “ambiguous.” He said he doesn't want to be behind bars with crazy criminals, that he’d be "like a fish out of water...It's one hell of a life."
At the same time, Douglas said, the alleged “criminal activities” of Peter Marx have cost him his home, job, reputation, family and most of his friends, and left him penniless.
"I don’t know how I can ask the court to turn me loose so I can go home because I don’t have a home," he said.
And in addition to what Marx has done to him. Douglas continued, he has also "been railroaded like a criminal by Mr. Baumgardner and his lies.”
The defendant said he can’t return to Richmond since his reputation there has been ruined to the point that he can't get a job and therefore can’t support himself.
If the court won’t dismiss the charges against him and order restitution. Douglas said he wanted a suspended sentence and promised to meet all conditions, including staying away from Peter Marx and Rappahannock County.
But he added that he had to be free to leave Richmond and even the state in order “to get away from the lies pinned on me.” He said he wanted to go out into the middle of a desert. “I’ll just disappear," he promised.
Douglas maintained that the only real argument he has against the malicious wounding charges is that the
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