Paper Chase in Martha Trial

Updated from 1:45 p.m. EST

Despite the judge's strict instructions against it, the two sides in the Martha Stewart trial used the press -- in the form of past newspaper articles -- to advance their cases.

In the trial's afternoon session Wednesday, the government asked Peter Melley, an NASD investigator, to chart the daily stock price movement for shares of Stewart's company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia(MSO Quote), for June 2002, the month the story broke in the news media. ...