If federal prosecutors hoped to chill all white collar criminals by sending Martha Stewart to jail, they failed. If they hoped to break the diva, they failed. All they did was create a more successful, richer and better Martha Stewart.

To start with you don't send any message by taking up prison space and running up taxpayer bills by warehousing someone like Stewart. First, let me welcome her back to the real world (if house arrest at a $16 million estate can be considered the real world). I was opposed to her being charged, opposed to her being found guilty, thought she was railroaded by Republican prosecutors because she donated to Democratic causes and thought the whole thing was ludicrous.

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