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Stewart's Sentencing Is Delayed.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2004

By Patricia Hurtado, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 8--NEW YORK -- A federal judge has delayed the sentencing of Martha Stewart and her former broker Peter Bacanovic until July 8, allowing her lawyers time to prepare written legal arguments in an effort to win her a new trial.

U.S. District Court Judge Miriam Cedarbaum was slated to sentence Stewart and Bacanovic, her former Merrill Lynch broker, on June 17. The decision to delay the sentencing was granted Friday and confirmed Monday by the office of U.S. Attorney David Kelley and Stewart's defense attorney Robert Morvillo.

A Manhattan federal jury convicted Stewart and Bacanovic on March 5 on charges stemming from Stewart's December 2001 sale of...

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