Tell It To The Jury.

STEWART, Martha, 1941-; O'DONNELL, Rosie, 1962-; MORVILLO, Robert

As pal Rosie O'Donnell complains of a 'bitch hunt,' Martha Stewart gets her day in court. The Martha Stewart who might blow a fuse over an incorrectly set salad fork? For all her outward calm and characteristic self-composure, Stewart, 62, has clearly been affected by the prospect of being found guilty of conspiracy, making false statements, obstruction of justice and securities fraud charges stemming from her $228,000 sale of Imclone Systems stock in December 2001. "Of course I'm scared," a tearful Stewart told Barbara Walters in a November ABC interview, part of a carefully calibrated public relations effort to soften her image. "The last place I would ever want to go is prison." Just before heading to the Caribbean for Christmas, Stewart and her mother, Martha Kostyra, 89, baked what Kostyra calls" a nice holiday babka." "Martha just keeps going," says Melissa Neufeld, her friend and product designer. "She doesn't whine or complain." Instead Stewart is letting influential supporters plead her case. "It's literally a witch hunt, only it's a bitch hunt," says Rosie O'Donnell, who believes that Stewart's standing as one of the country's top businesswomen made her a federal target. INSETS: THE LEGAL BATTLE;AND IN MARTHA'S CORNER....