No New Trial for Martha

[Newswolf]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBP9VQ7FWD.html

"U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum said there was "no reasonable likelihood that this perjury could have affected the jury's verdict."

The judge said "overwhelming independent evidence" supports the jury's guilty verdict.

The decision paved the way for the celebrity homemaker to be sentenced next week for lying about a 2001 stock sale. "

[Newswolf]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/07/13/financial1130EDT0095.DTL&type=business

"Stewart will be sentenced at 10 a.m. and Bacanovic will be sentenced at 2:30 p.m., a clerk for Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum of Manhattan federal court said. Both sentencings had been scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday. "

[vicktor]

We'll see if she is ready to accept the verdict, by how much effort is put into the appeals. At this point she should cut her losses, accept the punishment and get it over with so she can begin to resume her life. Even that 'biter' Marv Albert is back on TV, doing games.

[deputylinda]

martha will appear on larry king live tonight, july 19, to discuss sentence.