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What the 63-year-old domestic diva wants, according to legal analysts, is to do away with her five months of home confinement and her electronic monitoring device.
The appeals court did agree to send the case back to Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, New York's Daily News reports. The paper notes that the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that sentencing guidelines (which were used in doling out Stewart's punishment) are unconstitutional.
When she arrived in court through a side entrance with her daughter Alexis on Thursday, Stewart refused to show off her ankle monitor to photographers but she did joke with federal marshals as she passed through a metal detector, says the Associated Press.
She also did not comment on a Los Angeles Times report that that CBS is rushing into production a TV movie starring Cybill Shepherd that would spotlight her legal troubles of the past year. (Shepherd, played Stewart in NBC's 2003 movie Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart, based on a bestselling biography by New York Post business columnist Christopher Byron. The flick was a ratings hit.)
The new movie's producer, Tom Patricia, tells the Times he's never met Stewart and insists his project is a "dramatic character study" – not just a means of taking cheap shots at her. The as-yet-untitled movie reportedly may be ready in time for May sweeps.
