A woman convicted of attacking a security guard at the U.S. consulate in Toronto was told by a judge Wednesday that he has no power to cancel her dangerous offender status.

Earlier this month, a Toronto jury found Michelle Erstikaitis, 39, guilty of assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm and possession of a weapon, but not guilty of attempted murder.

Two summers ago, the Hamilton woman entered the University Ave. building, where she was noisy and aggressive and used a box cutter to slash the guard’s arm and neck.

Erstikaitis has a reputation for erratic, sometimes headline-making behaviour.

She wrote love letters to serial killer Paul Bernardo and was convicted of making death threats against the family of one of his victims. In 1999, she was convicted of arson, endangering life and breaching probation after setting her Hamilton apartment on fire.

In 2009, she threw a plate and a hard drive at her boyfriend, kicked him and stabbed him with scissors in their Toronto apartment.

In 2011, Superior Court Justice Todd Archibald declared Erstikaitis a dangerous offender after a psychiatric report diagnosed her with conduct and personality disorders. But that did not mean, as it once did, that she had to be jailed indefinitely.

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Erstikaitis was released almost immediately, after receiving credit for pretrial custody, and placed under a long-term supervision order for 10 years.

Seven years ago, Erstikaitis went along with the designation. No longer.

“The position of the defence is that I’m still not a dangerous offender,” she told Superior Court Justice Alfred O’Marra on Wednesday. She submitted written arguments asking him to reverse the 2011 dangerous offender order.

Erstikaitis represented herself at the just-completed jury trial where she lectured — and hectored — the court-appointed lawyer, Paula Rochman, court staff and Crown attorney Jennifer Gibson. Her rambling soliloquies and insults were a staple of the two-week trial.

On Wednesday, O’Mara told Erstikaitis he did not have “jurisdiction to revisit somebody else’s order.” The Court of Appeal was the proper place, he advised.

Prior to sentencing Erstikaitis for her latest crimes, Gibson told the judge the Crown is seeking an “updated” psychiatric assessment as allowed under the Criminal Code.

Wearing a flowing white blouse, trousers, heavy makeup and her hair long with a blunt fringe, Erstikaitis said she wants to retain her own psychiatrist to conduct the assessment.

“What we have here is a woman who says, ‘I want to be a success story,’ is beautiful, brilliant, could be in Hollywood doing whatever I like, could be married to the president of China,” she told the court.

“I could be doing whatever I want because of my intelligence and beauty, and there are no psychiatric issues other than I’m surrounded by jealous women, and have to call 911 and police every time I move.”

Erstikaitis added she wants a psychiatrist who is “involved with celebrities, people that get media exposure for something other than crime ... I want somebody like that, who’s alive to the problems that I have.”

O’Marra told her to “carry on” and find someone whom she feels is qualified.

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Outside court, Gibson said she has not yet made sentencing recommendations. “There are lots of different things that could happen, depending on what happens with the assessment,” she said.

Asked about the experience of prosecuting Erstikaitis, the Crown attorney said only it was “something I will not forget.”

Erstikaitis will be back in court July 13.