Baldrick

I agree, Nazggul. Look, what she did was wrong and she deserves to be punished. But her fame and money have, for the most part, worked against her in this trial!

And Martha Stewart has her lawyers trying every trick in the book to keep her out of prison - but she's not trying anything that isn't available to everyone! She's simply using the system to her advantage. The only reason you don't hear about the tens of thousands of other people who do the same thing, is that they don't have CNN following them around 24/7. The only positive difference her money made was to allow her to afford the best lawyers money could buy. Granted, that's a pretty big positive...

The thing that really makes me want to slap Stewart though, is that she honestly thinks she's done no wrong. She should have admitted what she did was wrong, and offer to spend all of her time and money benefitting society in some way. Be sincere and apologetic, and work on something like a battered women's shelter that can get women back on their feet and in a professional environment - that type of thing. That may have kept her out of prison, and saved her precious image in everyone's eyes. Instead, she's just throwing chum to the sharks with her idiotic actions.

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