, wept when the guilty verdict was read in court. During the trial, the fertility clinic nurse was free on $2.1 million bail. She was taken into custody immediately following her conviction. "This is a traumatic time for her. She's been convicted of something that she did not do," Joseph Tacopina, one of her defense attorneys, told The Star-Ledger of Newark. Prosecutors said McGuire wanted her husband out of the way so that she could start a new life with her lover, Dr. Bradley Miller, her boss at a Morristown fertility clinic. McGuire's defense attorneys said that authorities zeroed in on their client from the beginning and ignored other possible suspects. They have said they will appeal her conviction.

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