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Facing prison time when she is sentenced on Friday, Martha Stewart is running out of options for her defense. A last-ditch bid for a new trial failed late last week; now TIME has obtained a portion of the evidence contained in that effort...
...appeal. It consists of a series of ?text messages,? sent by ink expert Larry Stewart (no relation) to colleague Brittney King, that the lawyers argued tainted his testimony. Larry Stewart, the chief forensic scientist for the Secret Service, presented evidence to support the government's claim that Peter Baconovic, Martha Stewart's stockbroker, altered a document after the fact to show that the two had a pre-existing arrangement to sell ImClone stock. Larry Stewart has since been charged with having lied on the stand about whether he ever examined the document in question; on June 15 he pleaded...
...adds that it was flawed. ?Were (sic) still here at the US Attny office. They seem nervous about the ink Sue [Fortunato, Stewart's assistant] didn?t test. She wrote the report without talking about the one entry she couldn?t test and they wrote the indictment for Martha.? In another message, Stewart seems aware of the possible legal peril when he describes the document, a worksheet that listed Martha's stock holdings at Merrill Lynch. ?The document,? he says in a Feb. 18 message, ?was just [shown on a news program playing] on the big screen in Times Square...
...been in conclave ever since 2. aclock yesterday. 25. balots have been taken at intervals of from half an hour to an hour. They were invariably 8. 6. & 2. divided. I can venture nothing more by the post but my affectionate salutations, to yourself & my dear Martha...
...miss my old job terribly." MARTHA STEWART, convicted former CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, who is scheduled to be sentenced this month on charges related to her sale of ImClone stock...