DATE: 20050601

DOCKET: C43207

COURT OF APPEAL FOR ONTARIO

RE:

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Respondent) – and – SCOTT SCHUTZMAN (a.k.a. PROFESSOR STARSON) (Applicant/Appellant)

BEFORE:

MACPHERSON, ARMSTRONG and LANG JJ.A.

COUNSEL:

Scott Starson (Schutzman)

appearing in person

Anita Szigeti, amicus curiae

for the appellant

Riun Shandler

for the respondent

HEARD & ENDORSED:

May 30, 2005

On appeal from the disposition of the Ontario Review Board dated December 16, 2004.

A P P E A L B O O K E N D O R S E M E N T

[1] In spite of the able arguments by Professor Starson on his own behalf and by Ms. Szigeti as amicus curiae, we can see no error in the board’s disposition dated December 16, 2004. The Board focussed, correctly, on the risk the appellant poses to the community and concluded that the appellant “at this time continues to present as a real and substantial danger to the public.” On the basis of the evidence heard by the Board, we see no reason for disagreeing with this conclusion.

[2] The appeal is dismissed.