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Welcome to the SBF trial, a CoinDesk Podcast Network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman-Fried will try to stay out of prison.

Follow the CoinDesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coin Desk

Regulation Team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. FtX founder and one-time CEO Sam Bankman-Fried

will stand trial in just under two weeks to defend himself against allegations he

deliberately committed fraud and conspired to defraud crypto investors and customers in FTX and Alameda research.

The estimated six-week trial itself is scheduled to kick off on October 3rd, 2023, a mere 10 months after Bankman Fried was first arrested, and not even 11 months after FTX collapsed.

To better understand the trial process, CoinDesk spoke to several

legal experts, some of whom asked for anonymity to discuss a high-profile case. Though the trial is

scheduled to begin next month, there's still some time before the actual arguments are made.

The first step, which may occur as soon as next week, is a final

pretrial conference where Southern District of New York Judge Lewis Kaplan will lay out what a

final witness schedule may look like, how long the trial date may be, and rule on any final

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