PROSECUTORS OPPOSE STEWART'S BID FOR NEW TRIAL.(BUSINESS)

Byline: Associated Press

NEW YORK -- The government filed court papers Thursday opposing Martha Stewart's last-ditch bid for a new trial based on perjury allegations against a Secret Service ink expert.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan urged U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum to reject Stewart's request.

The domestic entrepreneur and her former stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic, asked for new trials after prosecutors charged ink expert Larry Stewart with lying repeatedly on the witness stand in February.

The government says Larry Stewart, no relation …