Martha Stewart gets 5 months...

[dissention]

Good god, she's not going to prison, people.

She's been granted a stay, meaning that she won't have to even begin her five months in jail until ALL of her appeals are exhausted. And she will be granted a new trial. The charge of her trying to pull a fast one on her stockholders by proclaiming her innocence publicly was thrown out by the judge, but only at the end of the trial before the jury deliberated. That means that the prosecutors still presented all of the evidence pertaining to that charge, and it was even in their opening and closing statements. That alone is enough to warrant a new trial, but add to that the fact that one of the governments witness is being prosecuted for perjury when he testified and the most outspoken juror lied to get on the jury.

ALSO - during the five months of house arrest, the judge ruled that she will not have to wear an alarm and that she can work five days a week.

Martha's fine.