Martha Stewart won a ruling barring prosecutors from using an e-mail she wrote to her lawyer explaining her trading as evidence at her trial.
In a June 23, 2002, e-mail, Stewart, the former chief executive of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., offered an account to her attorney of why she sold shares in ImClone Systems Inc. The e-mail was meant to assist her lawyer's investigation of the case, Stewart said. The next day, Stewart sent the same e-mail to her daughter Alexis.
