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...shut up, shut up, shut up, she talked to federal investigators twice. In the world of corporate public relations, where appearance is everything, she disappeared for too long. At trial, the jury seemed to resent her celebrity cheering section--sorry, Rosie--and the fact that her attorney, Robert Morvillo, never let her testify. That might have been proper legal strategy, but the jury had spent all that time in court with her and had never been properly introduced. That's not very Martha...
Where did Stewart go wrong? Trial lawyers say her attorney, Morvillo, took too big a risk in assuming that the government had not made its case. The defense presented a truncated case and never put Stewart or Bacanovic on the stand to offer a competing version of events. Howard Schiffman, head of securities litigation at Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky in Washington, notes that the defense's main argument--that Stewart and Bacanovic had an oral agreement to sell ImClone at a preset price--was left unsubstantiated. "What was the evidence that there was a prior conversation if they didn...
...once but twice leaves Shargel flabbergasted. "If she had just kept her mouth shut, nothing would have happened," he says. Stewart was initially solely represented by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz, a heavyweight corporate law firm. But by the time she was indicted, she had placed her bets with Morvillo, a white-collar-crime specialist...
...sources close to the defense tell TIME that Stewart's attorney Robert Morvillo intends to highlight discrepancies between notes taken at that interview by a rookie FBI agent and those taken by one of Stewart's attorneys, Stephen Pearl. According to Pearl's notes, Stewart did not deny knowing about the phone log but said only that she didn't know the time the message was taken. Because Armstrong didn't record the time, the defense will say Stewart didn't lie. The judge, meanwhile, is giving the prosecution little leeway to prove Stewart committed securities fraud by misleading...
...illegal, the officer's department would have to punish him adequately or risk having the conviction thrown out. Others suggest that the convicted subject of an unlawful search could sue police for damages. But this idea has never seemed very realistic. Scoffs New York City Defense Lawyer Robert Morvillo: "A defendant is not going to have the money to bring a suit, and he's not going to have credibility with a jury...