said, "After eight months even the trial judge started looking good." Guess was convicted of obstruction of justice. After being convicted she said, "I have been convicted for falling in love and nothing more. I have not committed a crime." She was sentenced to 18 months in prison and was released after serving 3 months in a minimum security women's facility known as "Camp Cupcake." She appealed her sentence, but the appeal was dismissed on November 2, 2000. Media coverage The trial of Gillian Guess became a media sensation, with reporters coming from as far away as Germany and New Zealand to cover it. The Gillian Guess story was also told on the news magazine show Inside Edition, and on the ABC News Show 20/20. Gillian Guess was also photographed for Marie Claire magazine. In 1998, Gillian Guess wrote an article in a Simon Fraser University campus newspaper named "The Peak." Her story was the subject of a 2004 movie, The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess, and was the basis of the Law & Order episode "Hubris". References People from Vancouver 1955 births Living people People convicted of obstruction of justice