USAToday has an article in its January 29, 2004 issue about the expected testimony of the government's “most important witness” in the Martha Stewart prosecution. The article describes the witness, Douglas Faneuil, as an assistant to Stewart's broker. In what may be the law-related understatement of the year, the article concludes that the defense lawyers for Stewart and her broker “are not expected to treat him kindly.”
The article does, however, continue and quotes a former Justice Department prosecutor: The “witness chair is going to be white-hot“ and Faneuil will be “subject to withering cross-examination.”
Addendum:
The printed version of the article was updated today in USAToday's website to report that the trial has now been postponed because the defense was just given a statement which Faneuil's former attorney gave to the FBI in 2002.
Posted by ajlevy at January 29, 2004 4:02 PM