As if I gave a f***:
"Doctor in Utah found guilty of killing his wife" by Paul Foy | Associated Press, November 10, 2013
PROVO, Utah — A jury convicted a doctor of murder Saturday in the death of his wife six years ago, bringing an end to a trial that became the nation’s latest true-crime cable TV obsession with its tales of jailhouse snitches, forced plastic surgery, philandering, and betrayal....
The case shocked the Mormon community of Pleasant Grove, 35 miles south of Salt Lake City, and captured national attention because the defendant was a wealthy doctor and a lawyer, a father of eight in a picture-perfect family, and former bishop in his local congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....
The highlight of the three-week trial was a mistress who MacNeill introduced as a nanny within weeks of his wife’s death. His older daughters quickly recognized Gypsy Willis as his secret lover and said her mother had been arguing with her husband about the affair.
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"Utah doctor’s murder trial goes to jury" Associated Press, November 09, 2013
PROVO, Utah — Jurors have begun deliberating whether a Utah doctor is guilty of murder in the death of his wife after a three-week trial that featured testimony from mistresses, prison snitches, and daughters of the disgraced physician.
The case went to the jury Friday afternoon after attorneys laid out their cases for the final time during closing arguments.
Prosecutors argued that there’s a mountain of circumstantial evidence showing that Martin MacNeill, 57, pestered his wife to get a face lift, then drugged and drowned her in a bathtub six years ago to start a new life with a mistress.
A lawyer for MacNeill countered that the prosecution has cherry-picked evidence in a case full of reasonable doubt. His wife, Michele MacNeill, died in 2007 as a result of her many medical complications, not because she was killed, said attorney Randy Spencer.
‘‘The evidence doesn’t add up the way the prosecution wants it to add up,’’ he said.
Earlier, Deputy Utah County Attorney Chad Grunander said Martin MacNeill’s erratic behavior the day of his wife’s death and shortly afterward was ‘‘dripping with motive.’’
Spencer acknowledged that MacNeill had mistresses and sometimes acted oddly, but said the prosecution never proved that MacNeill drugged and drowned his wife.
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"Inmate testifies Utah doctor acknowledged killing" by PAUL FOY | Associated Press, November 07, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY — Two men who spent time behind bars with a former Utah doctor testified Wednesday that he had acknowledged killing his wife.
One witness recalled defendant Martin MacNeill saying he was getting away with murder. Another said MacNeill told him that he had held his heavily drugged wife under water in a bathtub.
With prosecutors nearing the end of their mostly circumstantial case, witness Jason Poirier recounted his conversation with MacNeill in December 2012 at Utah County jail — a few months after MacNeill’s arrest in the death of Michele MacNeill.
Poirier was being held on suspicion of shoplifting at the time.
Poirier said the conversation started when he asked MacNeill how he was able to get away with wearing custom-made shoes in jail. He said MacNeill replied, ‘‘ ‘I can get away with a lot of things. I’m getting away with the murder of my wife.’ ’’
Poirier took the witness stand under a limited grant of immunity from possible drug and theft charges.
Defense lawyers attacked his credibility by getting him to acknowledge he thought he would avoid charges or get out of jail by informing on MacNeill.
Another inmate, whose identity was withheld by the court, recounted his conversations with MacNeill in 2011, when the doctor was being held on fraud charges at a federal prison in Texas.
The man, who was doing time for possessing cocaine and a gun, recalled MacNeill saying he had given his wife oxycodone and sleeping pills, helped her into a bathtub, and held her head under water for a short time.
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"Mistress says she moved in days after wife died" by Paul Foy | Associated Press, October 30, 2013
PROVO, Utah — The mistress of a Utah doctor accused of killing his wife testified Tuesday that she moved into his house nine days after the death and received a marriage proposal and a $7,000 diamond ring from the defendant within months.
The judge allowed prosecutors to aggressively question Gypsy Willis as a hostile witness after they argued that she was trying to protect Martin MacNeill with less-than-truthful answers as he stands trial on a murder charge in the death of his wife, Michele....
MacNeill is accused of hounding his wife to get a face lift, then administering a lethal combination of drugs for her recovery and helping her into a tub of water in April 2007....
Willis said she had been having a sexual relationship with MacNeill for 15 months before his wife died. The doctor set her up in a duplex, gave her a debit card for expenses, and helped pay for her schooling as a nursing student, she said.
Willis said the doctor hired her as a nanny about a week after the funeral of his wife.
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The more print and attention the propaganda pre$$ devotes to such things the less I want to read it.
