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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors say there was enough evidence to convict a Utah doctor of drugging and killing his wife even without disputed testimony from a former cellmate at the center of an appeal.
Utah County prosecutors contend in court documents filed Thursday that the case against 59-year-old Martin MacNeill included solid evidence that he dosed her with prescription drugs after hounding her to get a facelift, then swiftly introduced his mistress.
MacNeill says she died of natural causes. His lawyer said in an appeal that the cellmate would say anything to get out of prison, and his tainted testimony was only thing directly tying MacNeill to the crime.
In 2013, MacNeill was found guilty of killing his wife Michele MacNeill by dosing her with drugs prescribed after cosmetic surgery and leaving her to drown in the bathtub in 2007.
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