Free Martha !...or not! ***Live Thread*** on Martha's fate (Five Months)

News channels ^ | July 16, 2004

[TomGuy]

Free Martha!!!!!....or Not!

Court decision any moment.

[TomGuy]

Red flag

5 months in prison

[NYC GOP Chick]

5 months in a federal pen + 5 months of house arrest

[finnman69]

Bye bye Martha...

[BikerNYC]

My guess: 10 months.

[Solson]

Seems reasonable.

[TomGuy]

[The Mayor]

is that all?

I wonder how she will decorate her cell..
2 years probation..

[cripplecreek]

She's going down......on a big girl named Shaneequa most likely.

[finnman69]

next up....Kobe

and on another trial note...Scott Peterson is going to walk.

[Solson]

If her name was Martha Jones and she was a mid-management nothing she would have never been charged.

[traumer]

What time is it expected..... ??

[12B]

Five months House Arrest/ Two years probation (Bloomberg)

[mtbopfuyn]

So, how quickly can she get out for good time?

That's ok. She'll make a mint on this with a book, various interviews and appearances, and have a new tv show.

[July 4th]

You'd think that her fans, with all of their arts and crafts ability, could make better looking signs.

[TomGuy]

$30,000 + 400 fine

[12B]

Make that 5 mos prison, 5 mos House arrest, 2 yrs probation.

[TXBSAFH]

The judge has gotten thousands of letters asking of mercy and probation. I am sad to say I did not get my letter off to him. The one asking for a public hanging. Ah, mores the pity, lost opportunities.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Time to break out all the Martha Stewart in prison artwork, FReepers!

[NonValueAdded]

Plenty of time to write a book.

[TomGuy]

Martha owns 6 homes.

Picked home in Bedford as the place where she will be confined. (Rough. lol. That would be like being confined to 5 months at one of Teraaaza's estate homes.)

[q_an_a]

You have the sane comment of the thread.

amazing how many conservaties hate Martha for her poltics and want the legal system to punish her for listening to her broker.

[Squantos]

Rat support money goes to the pokey......

[mtbopfuyn]

If her name was Martha Jones and she was a mid-management nothing she would have never been charged.

Ain't it the truth. The taxpayers have lost untold amount just because she's famous.

[HRoarke]

She wouldn't have been charged at all if she hadn't lied to investigators.

As always the coverup is worse than the crime...

[traumer]

[7.62 x 51mm]

I also started the same type of letter 2-3 times, but never finished it. Now I wish I'd actually sent one.

[TomGuy]

Oh, it's rough. She can only leave the confinement for 48 hours and only for medical, religious, or 'necessities.'


lol

[spectre]

FIVE months in prison, five months house arrest and two years probation.

She should complain? NOT!

$30,000 fine with a $400 additional assessment...

The judge has given Martha Stewart the choice where she wants to spend her house arrest.

Martha will get to wear a nice little bracelet in her Bedford home.

Big deal...she can go out for medical, religious services and shopping for necessities.

Big deal!

sw

[oceanview]

and a fine of $30,000. she dropped that at dinner last week at Daniel.

[TomGuy]

She won't have to pee in a cup for drug testing.

[jimbo123]

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Exactly. This is pathetic.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

What a joke.

[NautiNurse]

Not too shabby. She may leave for medical, religious reasons, and to shop for other necessities up to 48 hours per week.

[Frapster]

She got more than she deserved.

[Unknown Freeper]

Hi, AM, perhaps you could add the sentence to the thread title so that people won't keep creating new threads.

Thanks,

[paws_and_whiskers]

5 months in prison

She'll file for shock probation after one month.

[finnman69]

[Choose Ye This Day]

They'll probably start a reality show now: "Behind Bars with Martha" or something like that. It wouldn't be any more inane than the other bilge they try to pass off as entertainment these days.

[TomGuy]

Yes. But, Martha was offered a 'deal' months ago. It was something like a $30k fine and 6 months probation. She declined. She has been a "B" during the early investigation, etc.

She brought this on herself. She should consider herself lucky that this is the worst she got.

[Dog]

She can leave the mansion for 48 hours a week......your kidding me right?

[woofie]

Not enough time to redecorate the jail cell

[finnman69]

[Dog]

Hahahahahaha!

[superiorslots]

What a joke.



Exactly. Us little people would have served the entire 16 months. And that 30K fine? Chump change to Martha. We would have been fined 75K and would hav killed us.


As a conselation(sic)maybe someone will wipe that smug look off her face in the 5 months time she serves. We can only hope.

[Solson]

She lied and was caught so yes, she violated the law and should be penalized. However, the application of the law against these violations takes place on a very limited basis.

This type of insider trading happens everyday across America. It doesn't make it right. But, when applying the law, it should be done consistently or the law itself loses credibility and impact.

What's worse? What Martha Stewart did and was caught doing or the fact that many others continue to do this with no repercussions at all?

Laws are useless unless applied consistently and credibly.

[traumer]

Although I have no experience
- I'd guess that 'all-women prison' cannot be as bad as 'all-men'.....

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Unlike silver-spooned Terry Tomato who was born to cash and married cash twice, Martha was blue collar who earned her money the old Republican way -- she earned it.

This is pathetic.

[pabianice]

She'll be free on appeal until she dies of old age...

[f zero]

No justice no peace!

She should have gotten the MAX.