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 NEW YORK (AP) - In a follow-up filing to a request by Martha Stewart that a judge reduce her time under house arrest, her company's CEO and lawyers responded Monday to prosecutors who had mocked her claim that the confinement was damaging her business.
Federal prosecutors had urged a judge last week to deny Stewart's request for a reduction to her sentence for lying about a stock sale. "Minor inconvenience to one's ability to star in a television show is an insufficient ground for resentencing," prosecutor Michael Schachter wrote in a letter to the judge referring to Stewart's two upcoming television series — a daytime talk show and a new rendition of NBC's "The Apprentice."
In a letter accompanying a new brief by lawyers, chief executive and president Susan Lyne defended Stewart.
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