Word: courtroom
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Stewart suffered her first visible emotional breakdown last Wednesday evening, after the case was handed to jurors, says a source close to her. She might have had an inkling of what was to come on Friday inside a crammed but quiet courtroom in lower Manhattan. The most serious charge against her, securities fraud, had been thrown out the previous week. But four counts remained--obstruction, conspiracy and two charges of making false statements. Stewart, grim-faced and dressed in her ritual uniform, a dark pantsuit, sat and showed no emotion as Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum repeated the word guilty four...
...final courtroom gaffe, it seems, was the presence of celebrity friends--among them Rosie O'Donnell and Bill Cosby--who sat behind Stewart in a show of support. "If anything, we may have taken it as a little bit of an insult," Hartridge said...
...more egregious offenses. As Daily News columnist Lenore Skenazy asserted, “She is too confident. Too competent. Too rich. She’s even too pretty.” If there is anything to be taken away from this scandal, it’s that in the courtroom of the American consciousness, it was Martha Stewart’s personality—and not her actions—which were being put on trial...
...more egregious offenses. As Daily News columnist Lenore Skenazy asserted, “She is too confident. Too competent. Too rich. She’s even too pretty.” If there is anything to be taken away from this scandal, it’s that in the courtroom of the American consciousness, it was Martha Stewart’s personality—and not her actions—which were being put on trial...
...This case is going to be decided by 12 decent people sitting in a courtroom in a court of law with real witnesses, with real evidence ... and not with scapegoats." DANIEL PETROCELLI, lawyer for former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who pleaded not guilty to 35 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud and insider trading...