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A Mrs. Perfect Crime

Brian Doherty | 7.16.2004 1:41 AM


Martha Stewart gets sentenced: five months jail plus five months home confinement, and a $30,000 fine.

For some thoughts on why this is a miscarriage of justice, see this Reason cover feature from Oct. 2003 by Michael McMenamin, and for a shorter take this USA Today op-ed by me.

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).