She didn't in public, but instead stated that she accepted "the judge's decision". What she didn't do, however was ensure the public that what she told them and wanted them to purchase at base price was that she was being completely truthful - even during those, her final hours before sentencing was to take place.

"The offences here are serious. They each involve lies made three years apart," Karas said to Jones. He also informed her that her criminal acts were "not a one-off mistake … but a repetition in an attempt to break the law".

Marion Jones's lawlessness reaches far beyond September 2000, however, and Karas appears wise to the facts in the matter.  I don't know how much information has been shared between Karas and Northern California District Judge, Susan Illston in the BALCO matters, but his decisions and comments on the matter with Marion Jones were justified and spot-on.

Marion Jones will likely be sent to Federal Prison Camp Bryan - one of six women's-only detainment centres in America.  She has been ordered to self-surrender to the inmate facility on 2008-March-11. 

Six months of confiment in the detention centre will provide Jones some reading time and many an hour contemplating her future steps in life.  They will also provide her much-needed time to consider what story to tell the Federal government in the Graham trial in June, and how to tell it. 

If she has learned her lesson in this case, one ending with her forced to spend time away from two sons - of which one is still nursing - she will tell the truth. The whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help her God.  If she decides to take criminal advice from inmates whose own strokes of luck didn't help their free movements and ability to choose, she'll land in an even bigger mess with harsher consequences and an upgraded prison facility with higher walls and an extra set of razor-wired fence.

The choice is now Marion Jones' to make.  She wants to be a catalyst to help others, and must start off by being truthful to herself. Once she has her inner demons figured out - those which bring out the sociopathic tendencies in her - she can seek advice to begin changing her ways. She's headed to prison, a place where lies, lies and more lies have gotten a majority of the women in there, and even more lies still rule the inner walls where it is challenging to trust your neighbour in the two-floor dormitory setting which houses the 1,000 women there.