Key Figure in Stewart Trial Dies After Collapsing at Train Stop

AP ^ | 2-26-04

[Sacajaweau]

The dude turned out to be a "VERY BAD" witness for the defense. I can find no website indicating the time of his fall at the train station.

[steve-b]

GMTA -- LOL!

[Cboldt]

Was he on his way to see the passion?

GMTA -- that was exactly the thought I had upon reading the headline.

[Spunky]

I do believe we got the POINT. :-)

[b4its2late]

Ping!

[b4its2late]

He'll still be able to vote if he's a democrat.....

[b4its2late]

LOL!!!

[small voice in the wilderness]

LOL!!

The Turkey Hill Terminator

[radiohead]

Was he on his way to see the passion?

LOL! My first thought.

[King David]

I think Fn Kerry should blame W for the "terror" of growing old. Or the "terror" of train stations. Or the "terror" of our legal system. Makes about as much sense as anything else he's saying these days.

[Sacajaweau]

Martha won't be in today. She's designing a "parlor" for an old "friend".

[tcuoohjohn]

Not to worry...Mr. Guttman will be added to " The Clinton Death List" by default. You see..Mr. Gutman was died in New York and Clinton was in New York.

Quod Erat Demonstratum Clinton Whacked out Mr. Guttman just for funzies..

[george wythe]

The only person who can organize this mass mess is Martha.

I'm beginning to think that Martha should have been vetting and organizing witnesses. Even if she's guilty, she should have at least a competent legal team on her side.

For instance, it does not get any worse than DeLuca's testimony:

Then prosecutors undermined a defense witness for Bacanovic, Stewart's assistant, Heidi DeLuca, who still works for Stewart.

This week DeLuca had backed her boss' claim that Stewart and Bacanovic had a prior arrangement to dump ImClone if it fell to $60. She repeatedly insisted she discussed the $60 deal with Bacanovic in November 2001, a month before Stewart sold.

But prosecutors played a tape of Bacanovic yesterday telling a far different story to the Securities and Exchange Commission. "Did you talk to Heidi at all about ... `Martha Stewart told me that once the stock hits 60, I should sell?' " an SEC lawyer asked Bacanovic in early 2002.

"I don't go into that level of detail with Heidi," Bacanovic said. Asked, "So the issue of the $60 didn't come up with Heidi?" Bacanovic kept the answer simple.

"No," he said.

Then this other defense witness was painful to watch:

The sole witness was Steven Pearl, a lawyer who took notes for Stewart during her Feb. 4, 2002, meeting with the FBI.

Defense lawyers had hoped Pearl would contradict the FBI agent who took notes, but Pearl's notes were confounding and he couldn't remember who said what.

It seems that Martha Stewart is being the victim of legal malpractice.

[null and void]

You're soooooo bad...

[Bobby777]

it was an Austrian that was the target, no? (done by a Bulgarian agent) ...

[small voice in the wilderness]

I agree with you. Except for one thing: Martha herself began weaving this tangled web with her deceit. Her attorneys can only do so much to try to get her out of it.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Tom Daschle is deeply saddened by this.

[george wythe]

Martha herself began weaving this tangled web with her deceit.

Absolutely.

Her original misdeed turned up to be a civil violation that would get her a fine.

Her obfuscating and tampering with evidence became a criminal offense.

If she had come clean at the beginning, she could have paid a fine and be done with it. Now it looks that her financial troubles will be compounded enormously, plus she's looking into a jail cell.

[ahayes]

Not if he was stuck in the behind with a Bulgarian umbrella.

Actually, that's the first thing I thought of. ;-)

[archy]

it was an Austrian that was the target, no? (done by a Bulgarian agent) ...

A Bulgarian defector, one Georgi Markov, actually. But yes, the Bulgarians were cleaning up one of their own.