PORT ANGELES — Methamphetamine can make a person feel delusional, paranoid and easily agitated.
When Thomas Martin Roberts used the drug also called methadrine, it made him psychotic, Western State Hospital psychiatrist Dr. Lee Brock testified Monday.
“Every episode he’s had of acute psychosis was associated with the use of methadrine,” said Brock in Clallam County Superior Court during the fifth day of Roberts’ murder trial.
Roberts, 56, is charged with aggravated first-degree murder in the shooting death of Deputy Wallace E. “Wally” Davis on Aug. 5, 2000, at Roberts’ Ennis Creek Road home.
Roberts, a one-time telephone installer, has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.
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