![]() The day after they closed on the house, the McGuires reportedly returned to their Woodbridge apartment, which was the last time William McGuire was seen alive. Authorities have said the two planned to spend their life together.Īt the same time, William McGuire purchased a home in Warren County for the couple. At her job she met a married doctor with whom she had an affair. Her husband was a computer technician for a college while she worked as a nurse at a Morristown fertility clinic. Melanie McGuire married William McGuire in 1999 and was pregnant with the couple's first child. ![]() ![]() "I don't see how the defense could do anything different that the result would be different." We can always second guess an attorney's performance, but the real question is if the trial attorney did something different would the result be different?" Bornstein asked. "All the evidence is based on speculation, not actual evidence. He also argued it was "wild speculation" that William McGuire used the home computer to access patient records from the facility where his wife worked to get a patient's name and forge a drug prescription in that patient's name. In her suit, McGuire also suggested Tacopina may have avoided hiring certain expert witnesses in order to keep more of the $180,000 retainer she paid his firm.ĭeputy Attorney General Daniel Bornstein argued there was no indication the retainer fee had any impact on decisions made by McGuire's trial defense team. View Gallery: Melanie McGuire appears in Middlesex County Superior Court "It's not a fair trial if other evidence could have been provided," said Lois DeJulio, a designated attorney for the public defender representing McGuire.ĭeJulio offered arguments about lands and grooves in the gun used to kill William McGuire, whether McGuire was using a drug to mask the symptoms of steroid use, and whether he, rather than Melanie McGuire, conducted certain Internet searches on a home computer. She claimed in court papers that she was denied effective representation by attorney Joseph Tacopina. 8, is serving a life sentence for the April 29, 2004, murder of William McGuire. She did not speak during the proceeding.įerencz said a written decision will be mailed to the attorneys no later than Oct. Known as the "suitcase killer," McGuire, dressed in tan state prison attire with her hands locked in handcuffs, appeared before state Superior Court Judge Bradley Ferencz seeking post-conviction relief. After serving seven years of a life sentence, Melanie McGuire - a New Jersey woman convicted of killing her husband, dismembering his body and packing it in suitcases before tossing it off a bridge in Virginia - returned to court Thursday.
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