PSY328H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: 18 Months, Budai
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Gillian guess (born 1955) is a vancouver woman who was convicted of obstruction of justice after becoming romantically involved with a murder defendant while she was a juror in his trial. Canadian law where jury room discussions were made part of the public record. Peter gill was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Johal, rajinder kumar benji, michael kent budai, ho sik (phil) kim, and sun news lal were tried with him on the murder charges. The trial began on february 27, 1995 and lasted eight months. It was one of the longest, most expensive and most complicated trials in british columbia history. Gillian guess was selected to serve as a juror for the murder trial. During the trial, guess and gill started a relationship that became sexual. Guess was quickly attracted to gill, who was a man 10 years younger than she.