Hundreds of potential jurors for the securities fraud trial of Westport’s Martha Stewart filed into a federal courthouse in Manhattan today to fill out questionnaires for the formal beginning of jury selection.
Lawyers on both sides will receive hundreds of completed questionnaires Wednesday, then spend two weeks reviewing them before interviewing some jurors in person on Jan. 20.
Opening arguments should come several days after that.
The questionnaire was not made public, and U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum ordered the media not to speak to potential jurors, citing the need for an unbiased jury.
Reporters were barred from the courtroom today, but were to be allowed in Jan. 20. The judge said she was acting at the request of both the prosecution and defense.
Stewart and her former stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic, were not in court today.
now that she’s been foud guilty we can hoe the judge thwows the book 4x 5 conseutive plus a big fat RICO on her assets every last penny, sad that judge didn’t remand right there on the spot.
justice for the folks on Turky Hill is sweet.