O.T. - Martha Stewart Statement After Jury Conviction
"I don't understand what happened! This can't be happening to me! This
can't happen to someone like me. Didn't those people on that jury know who
I am? It is so unfair. I thought there were laws in this country that
protected people like me. All those rules and laws and regulations that
they said I broke. Those are for the little people. I'm a celebrity. Those
rules don't apply to people like me. In fact, no one in this world is like
me! I'm special! I don't have time for this C.R.A.P. Now they say that I'm
going to prison. I'm not going there. Prison is for bad people. I'm not a
bad person. Just because I'm rich and famous, they want me to follow
"their" rules? "Their" rules? They actually expect me to follow "their"
rules! It's just not fair. They're just jealous of me, because I'm a woman;
because I'm a powerful woman! It is just so unfair! They said this was a
jury of my peers. Those "people" were my peers? They weren't my peers! They
were a bunch of little people, a bunch of nobodys! If I had my peers, you
know, "real" people, on that jury, this would have never happened! But I
won't let them do this to me. I will fight! I'll fight till the very end,
until they finally blame someone else for this C.R.A.P!"
Martha Stewart
Outside the federal courthouse in New York
March 5, 2004
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