He faces 15 years to life forfirst-degree murder when he is sentenced Jan. 7. He also was found guilty ofobstruction of justice, which could add 1-15 years. MacNeill was led bydeputies back to Utah County jail.
Randy Spencer, one of his lawyers, saidhe was disappointed before declining further comment.
The chief prosecutor, Chad Grunander,said the largely circumstantial case was the most difficult he ever brought totrial and that many prosecutors wouldn't bother trying, especially with medicalexaminers unable to produce a finding of homicide. "It was an almost perfectmurder," Grunander said in his closing argument, asserting MacNeill"pumped her full of drugs" that he knew would be difficult to detectonce she was dead.
An early mistress of MacNeill's testifiedhe once confided he could induce a heart attack insomeone that would appear natural.
After deliberating for 11 hours, the juryissued its guilty verdict to murder and obstruction of justice shortly after 1a.m. Saturday.
The case shocked the Mormon community ofPleasant Grove, 35 miles south of Salt Lake City, and captured nationalattention because the defendant was a wealthy doctor and a lawyer, a father ofeight in a picture-perfect family and former bishop in his local congregationof The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Defense lawyers contend Michele MacNeilldied of natural causes. They believe she had a heart attack and fell headfirstinto the tub and noted the autopsy showed she had an enlarged heart, anarrowing of the heart arteries and liver and kidney deterioration.
"There's simply no proof" ofhomicide, Spencer said. "The prosecution has presented to you theircherry-picked portion of the evidence."
He called the testimony of a handful of prisoninmates angling forearly release doubtful. The men who spent time behind bars with the doctortestified he had acknowledged killing his wife - or suggested thatinvestigators could never prove he did it.
Their testimony was the only directevidence of murder, Grunander said. MacNeill lawyers argued he would neveradmit murder to strangers in prison.
MacNeill was medical director of the UtahState Development Center, a residential center for people with cognitivedisorders, who moonlighted in other medical jobs, once consulting for a laserhair removal clinic. He had a law degree but wasn't known to practice law andhas since surrendered his law and medical licenses.
The highlight of the three-week trial wasa mistress who MacNeill introduced as a nanny within weeks of hiswife's death. His older daughters quickly recognized Gypsy Willis as his secretlover and said her mother had been arguing with her husband over the affair.
The daughters went to work uncoveringwhat they call their father's secret life. They abandoned him while doggingauthorities to open a murder investigation. It wasn't until MacNeill's releasein July 2012 from a federal prison in Texas on charges of fraud that Utahprosecutors moved to file charges of murder and obstruction of justice. Willis also served a federal sentence forusing the identity of one of MacNeill's adopted daughters to escape adebt-heavy history. That daughter had been sent back to Ukraine, supposedlyonly for a summer.
For a time, MacNeill's only familydefender was his only son. Damian, a 24-year-old law student, committed suicidein January 2010, according to his sisters, who have said he was haunted bytheir mother's death.
Prosecutors said MacNeill might havegotten away with a perfect murder, but his erratic behavior the day of hiswife's death and shortly afterward was "dripping with motive."
They reminded jurors about testimony thatMacNeill stood in the bathroom yelling what prosecutors called phony grief,"Why did you do this? All because of a stupid surgery," as paramedicstried to revive his wife.
Family testimony suggested it wasMacNeill who insisted his 50-year-old wife, a former local beauty queen in herCalifornia hometown, get the surgery. Prosecutors said he used it as an excuseto mix painkillers, Valium and sleeping pills for her
supposed recovery.
第一问是paraphrase”bringing an end to a trial that became the nation's latest true-crime cable TVobsession”
第二问是Whatdid “whomoonlighted in other medical jobs, once consulting for a laser hair removalclinic”imply ?
三、作文：curb the use of cars，即你对车辆限行的看法，要拟标题，400词 (Recently it is reported in the medie that many cities begin to take measures to curb car use. some people......, some people.... what's your view on this ?)
英语翻译基础
一、英汉互译
1、十八届三中全会
2、国家民族事务委员
3、中国地震局
4、主管部门
5、玩忽职守
6、徇私舞弊
7、以……为把手
8、国际会议口译员协会
9、绿化覆盖面积
10、行政问责制
11、暂行规定
12、一站式服务
13、国际惯例
14、得寸进尺
15、《西厢记》
16、National Council for US-China Trade
17、Special United Nations Fund for Economic Development
18、The Baltimore Sun
19、court of first instance
20、underwriting contract
21、licensee of a patent
22、China-EU maritime transport agreement
23、venture capital
24、The Great Depression
25、strategic agility
26、occupational health and safety
27、low-end processing
28、information asymmetry
29、diamonds cut diamonds
30、The Catcher in the Rye
二、英译汉
一篇秘鲁副总统又是企业家、经济学家的人物传记，名字很长，不过后面有解释。理解上没什么问题，但篇幅较大，拉美那边的国家名较多。
三、汉译英
一本画卷图册的序。里面有“《清明上河图》”、“中轴线”、“永定门”、“钟鼓楼”、“风土人情”、“绝无仅有”、“申遗”、“奔波于大街小巷”、“深厚感情和热爱”、“老城门城墙”、“交相辉映”、“权以充之”、“不再赘述”等。文学色彩比较重。
汉语百科
一、名词解释
1、银监会，行政许可，独立董事，结汇，核心资本
2、十八届三中全会，生态文明，中等收入陷阱，改革红利，小康社会
3、君主立宪制，《自由大宪章》，明治维新，洋务运动，张之洞
4、事业单位，计划经济，绩效工资，养老金，去行政化
二、应用文写作
给了一份材料，是广州2012年2月频繁发生地铁交通事故的新闻，有韩志鹏微博质问，广州地铁总公司微博回应和记者了解到的事故原因（原因较多，没按事故发生的时间顺序排列）。然后要求以广州市地下铁道总公司的名义对地铁事故发一份“通报”。
三、基础文体写作
“灵魂” 给了好几种解释 然后自命题目不限文体写一篇800字文章。