Article: Time to Butter up the Jury.

With the same attention to detail she devotes to fluffing and crimping home decor, Martha Stewart adjusted the phone log on her computer in early 2002. She deleted a note saying that a Merrill Lynch broker had called warning that one of her stock holdings was about to trade downward and replaced it with a squib leaving out his prediction. Soon, she changed her mind and directed her assistant to restore the entry to its original state. This abortive renovation job was not--in Martha lingo--"a good thing."

At least that's what prosecutors say. In a trial that begins this week in New York, they will charge that Stewart obstructed an investigation into suspicious ...

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