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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...
...Although one judge has found this material was not grounds to retry the case, it will be the centerpiece of defense efforts for an 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...
...messages, sent to King on Feb. 16, Larry Stewart appears to say he didn't do the testing and 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...
...Later that day, he sent another adding: ?Yeah they based their indictment on Sue's f___ed up report.? In yet another message on Feb. 19 he confessed, ?Were (sic) going to lose this case big time.? But the government didn?t lose. Martha Stewart and Baconovic were convicted in March of lying to federal investigators about why she sold her shares of biotech firm ImClone Systems. They said there was a pre-existing arrangement to sell if the stock price hit $60. But prosecutors said she sold because Baconovic gave her a tip that ImClone CEO Sam Waksal...
...radio network Air America, Howard Stern fulminating against the FCC or Chris Rock calling Bush a liar in an HBO special, political--and often anti-Bush--commentary has replaced "White guys can't dance" jokes as comedy's mainstay. And while Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, right, professes to be nonpartisan, it has lately become a one-stop source for lacerating criticism of the war in Iraq (or as The Daily Show has called it, the "Mess O' Potamia") and the Administration in general...