I haven't really been following the Martha Stewart case too closely. But I believe that she was convicted for lying and not for the actual crime of selling her stocks.
DRJennifer, I live in New York and I can't figure the whole Martha Stewart thing out. She's found guilty of several things, I believe, in this trial:
1. Insider trading
2. Lying about it
3. Being a mean evil bitch; I believe that the broker's assistant who turned evidence painted Miss Martha as a hostile, evil, unfriendly harridan and a lot of his giving evidence was to put her in her place and get revenge
From the past week's events, this is clear: she's still arrogant, sees nothing wrong in what she did, sees herself as a great martyr like Nelson Mandela who was imprisoned 25 years for political reasons (she got 5 months for lying!), and blames the guilty charge for laying off employees and stock falling, not realizing all the problems with layoffs and stock are the result of her criminal actions.