Gillian Guess (born 1955) is a Vancouver woman who was convicted in 1998 of obstruction of justice after becoming romantically involved with a murder defendant while she was a juror in his 1995 trial.
Police believed that in February 1994, the gang lured Jimsher Dosanjh (aged 26) to an alley, where they murdered him with machine guns.
Five of his associates, Bhupinder (Bindy) Johal, Rajinder Kumar Benji, Michael Kent Budai, Ho Sik (Phil) Kim, and Sun News Lal were tried with him on the murder charges.
[2] In May 2001, Peter Gill and his associates Budai and Kim were ordered to be retried by the British Columbia Court of Appeal on the first degree murder charges.
Police investigated, and received authorization to place secret listening devices in Guess's bedroom, and to tap her phone.
In 1998, Crown prosecutor Joseph Bellows laid an obstruction of justice charge against Gillian Guess, arguing she had violated s. 139 (2) of the Canadian Criminal Code.
The trial of Gillian Guess became a media sensation, with reporters coming from as far away as Germany and New Zealand to cover it.
[4] In 1998, Gillian Guess wrote a letter to the editor of "The Peak", the Simon Fraser University campus newspaper, complimenting the paper on an article about her.
[5] Her story was the subject of a 2004 movie, The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess,[6] and was the basis of the Law & Order episode "Hubris".