Re: Martha reflects

ivy_mike wrote:

> http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/0304/16stewartdaughter.html
> 
> Snips from article:
> 
> 'Martha Stewart is "disappointed over feeling like her life was
> wasted" after being convicted for lying about a stock sale, her only
> child says.
>   
> "Everything she did is ignored over something that trivial,"'
> 
> Four felonies is trivial?  This is the same kid whom Martha treated
> like dirt all those years.

I'm no fan of Martha, but the government did something weird with this
case.
They knew they couldn't convict her of insider trading, so they decided
her
crime was lying about it. If you can't prove somebody did something, how
can you prove they lied about it?